The Charter School Challenge
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The Charter School Challenge
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Author : Bryan C. Hassel
language : en
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Release Date : 2011-05-01
The Charter School Challenge written by Bryan C. Hassel and has been published by Brookings Institution Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-01 with Education categories.
Charter schools have become a national phenomenon, garnering praise from both Democrats and Republicans. Because they appear to sidestep both political stalemate and the practical difficulty of implementing widespread change--the traditional barriers to improvement in American public education--charter schools hold great promise as an educational reform. Now, with charter laws on the books in more than thirty states, Bryan Hassel investigates whether charter schools have been able to avoid the pitfalls that have tripped up so many other "revolutionary" school reforms. After a broad overview of how charter laws have been adopted nationwide, this book focuses in depth on charter schools in Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, and Michigan. Hassel reviews the four states' implementation of charter laws and whether their programs are providing sufficient autonomy, resources, and potential to influence the broader education system--all essential components for charter schools' success. He concludes that if states want to give charter schools a full test, they should empower nonlocal entities to approve charter schools, establish the schools as distinct local entities, allow full per-pupil funding to go with students to the charter schools, and impose minimal constraints on the source and number of charter schools. The schools themselves will need to improve their infrastructure, and charter-granting agencies will have to rebuild the systems for monitoring schools' academic results and compliance with regulations. These policies are vital if charter schools are to realize their potential as a significant educational reform.
Choices And Challenges
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Author : Priscilla Wohlstetter
language : en
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Release Date : 2013-03-01
Choices And Challenges written by Priscilla Wohlstetter and has been published by Harvard Education Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-01 with Education categories.
As charter schools enter their third decade, research in this key sector remains overwhelmingly contradictory and confused. Many studies are narrowly focused; some do not meet the standards for high-quality academic research. In this definitive work, Wohlstetter and her colleagues isolate and distill the high-quality research on charter schools to identify the contextual and operational factors that influence these schools’ performances. The authors examine the track record of the charter sector in light of the wide range of goals set for these schools in state authorizing legislation—at the classroom level, the level of the school community, and system-wide. In particular, they show how the evolution of the charter movement has shaped research questions and findings. By highlighting what we know about the conditions for success in charter schools, the authors make a significant contribution to current debates in policy and practice, both within the charter sector and in the larger landscape of public education.
The Urban Challenge In Education
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Author : Joseph Scollo
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2014-11-03
The Urban Challenge In Education written by Joseph Scollo and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-03 with Education categories.
With the advent of charter schools in the United States, the face of public education has changed in this country. From its early beginning in Minnesota to its exponential growth in California the charter school movement has generated much controversy. It has been praised for its accomplishments, and criticized for its creaming of students. Over 130,000 students attend nearly 250 charter schools in the city of Los Angeles. This book presents an in-depth look at seventeen of those schools – urban schools that are making a difference in the lives of the students and families they serve. Readers will encounter a group of dedicated educational pioneers who are committed and passionate about their schools. These are people who have sacrificed much, and put their lives on hold to develop and implement schools that meet the needs of all students regardless of economic circumstance or background. From people who have mortgaged their homes toattain financing for their dream, to some that have changed careers to improve the quality of education for children and young adults.
Unexplored Conditions Of Charter School Principals
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Author : Marytza A. Gawlik
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2017-08-03
Unexplored Conditions Of Charter School Principals written by Marytza A. Gawlik and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-03 with Education categories.
Unexplored Conditions of Charter School Principals: An Examination of the Issues and Challenges for Leaders, explores contemporary policy issues confronting charter school principals. The purpose of this book is to explore the issues and challenges confronted by charter school principals across an array of goals and expectations set forth by the policy and local context. By drawing on leadership and policy experts and researchers, we offer an in-depth examination of what current issues charter school principals face. Starting with autonomy, we work our way through teacher evaluation and succession and socialization and then conclude with an opportunity to reflect on what we know and how to look forward. By drawing on autonomy, sensemaking, teacher evaluations, and succession and socialization, this book traces the development of the charter principal within these policy contexts. Collectively, these topics form the beginnings of what we hope will be an informative and useful conversation of where the charter school principal has been and where they are headed.
Challenge And Opportunity
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Author : John Ericson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Challenge And Opportunity written by John Ericson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Charter schools categories.
This report examines the operational and educational changes that school administrators attribute to charter schools. It is part of the U.S. Department of Education's 4-year study to document and analyze the charter-school movement. The study asked two questions: What changes have districts made in district operations and district education that can be attributed to charter schools? and Under what conditions do charter schools affect change in district operations and district education? To answer these questions, researchers conducted in-depth site visits in 14 school districts and interviewed by telephone administrators in 35 other districts. The results indicate that every district in the study reported being affected by charter schools and, accordingly, had made operational changes. Nearly half of the district leaders believed that their diminished budgets were attributable to charter schools and had begun tracking the number of students who attended these schools. Likewise, almost half of these leaders reported becoming more customer-service oriented, increasing their marketing and public-relations efforts, or heightening their frequency of communication with parents. Most districts also implemented new educational programs, made changes in educational structures in district schools, and/or created new schools with programs that were similar to those in the local charter schools. (Contains 20 references.) (RJM)
Challenge And Opportunity
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Challenge And Opportunity written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Charter schools categories.
Ohio S Education Reform Challenges
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Author : C. Finn
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-07-05
Ohio S Education Reform Challenges written by C. Finn and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-05 with Education categories.
Charter schools have emerged as one of the central policy debates in U.S. education - and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute team has been a key participant in this debate since day one, both nationally and in Ohio. Despite President Obama's call for states to strengthen the charter sector and widen the options it provides to needy youngsters, established interests in education and politics oppose this disruption of the status quo. Ohio has struggled with these issues for more than a decade, struggles in which the authors of this book have played influential - and controversial - roles, including that of an actual authorizer of charter schools. They write from wide experience on the ground as well as extensive research and nationally-respected policy expertise.
Charter Schools
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Author : DIANE Publishing Company
language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Release Date : 1995
Charter Schools written by DIANE Publishing Company and has been published by DIANE Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Charter schools categories.
Charter Schools
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Author : Oliver M. Prisser
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Charter Schools written by Oliver M. Prisser and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Charter schools categories.
Charter schools, first launched in the 1990s, are an important and growing component of the public school system in the United States. More than 5,000 charter schools serve over 1.5 million students (approximately 3% of all public school students, in 40 states). There remains considerable debate as to whether, how, and under what circumstances charter schools improve the outcomes of students who attend them. This book summarises the results of a new study: the Evaluation of Charter School Impacts, a large-scale randomised trial of the effectiveness of charter schools funded by the Institute of Education Sciences and conducted by Mathematica Policy Research and its partners.
The Charter School Experiment
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Author : Christopher A. Lubienski
language : en
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Release Date : 2010-09-01
The Charter School Experiment written by Christopher A. Lubienski and has been published by Harvard Education Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-01 with Education categories.
When charter schools first arrived on the American educational scene, few observers suspected that within two decades thousands of these schools would be established, serving almost a million and a half children across forty states. The widespread popularity of these schools, and of the charter movement itself, speaks to the unique and chronic desire for substantive change in American education. As an innovation in governance, the ultimate goal of the charter movement is to improve learning opportunities for all students—not only those who attend charter schools but also students in public schools that are affected by competition from charters. In The Charter School Experiment, a select group of leading scholars traces the development of one of the most dynamic and powerful areas of education reform. Contributors with varying perspectives on the charter movement carefully evaluate how well charter schools are fulfilling the goals originally set out for them: introducing competition to the school sector, promoting more equitable access to quality schools, and encouraging innovation to improve educational outcomes. They explore the unintended effects of the charter school experiment over the past two decades, and conclude that charter schools are entering a new phase of their development, beginning to serve purposes significantly different from those originally set out for them.
