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The charter school landscape
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ISBN: 0822941805 1322096406 0822963361 0822980835 Year: 2002 Publisher: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press,

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The first charter school opened in Minnesota in 1992. Within nine years, there were more than 2,000 charter schools operating in thirty-four states, Washington, D.C., and Alberta, Canada. Public discourse on the charter school reform is often passionate and politically motivated. The editor has assembled a group of experts to present a more reflective and scholarly discussion of the reform, its performance to date, and its implications for public policy.


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Charter schools in eight states
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ISBN: 1282081667 9786612081668 0833047116 0833046934 9780833047113 9781282081666 9780833046932 661208166X Year: 2009 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA RAND

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Charter schools now exist in 40 states, but the best charter-school studies to date have focused on individual states. This book examines charter schools in eight states with varied policy contexts. It assesses the characteristics of charter schools' students, their effectiveness in raising student achievement and promoting graduation and college entry, and their competitive effects on student achievement in traditional public schools.

Charter school operations and performance
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ISBN: 0833034146 0833033549 9780833034144 9780833033543 Year: 2003 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA Rand

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The report analyzes an array of issues pertaining to accessibility, student achievement, governance, and operation of charter schools in California. Four specific research questions were investigated: (1) What population of students attends charter schools? (2) Is student achievement higher in charter schools than in conventional public schools? (3) What oversight and support do the chartering authorities provide? (4) How do charter schools differ from their conventional public school counterparts in terms of their operation, including finances, academic achievement, and staffing?


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Continued progress
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ISBN: 0833094017 9780833094018 Year: 2015 Publisher: Santa Monica Rand Corporation


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The Charter School Experience : Voices from the Field
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ISBN: 9463006885 9463006907 9463006893 Year: 2016 Publisher: Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers,

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The Charter School Experience: Voices from the Field is a unique book that presents readers with balanced perspectives from teachers, students, parents, and school leaders at charter schools across the United States. Through first-person narratives, the book highlights the delicate intricacies of what makes a school charter succeed or fail. Unlike a book written by academics far removed from the practice of education, this book gives voice to the people most impacted by charters: the families and educators who have embraced these schools for better or worse, and who now have enriching stories to tell. These experiences—embodied in introspective and moving chapters—go well beyond the news headlines and politicized studies that have spotlighted charters in the past. In this book, teachers highlight their successes and failures in charter school classrooms, parents explore decisions to enroll in charters, school leaders discuss the social missions of charters, and students write about how charter schools have impacted their lives. The result is an engaging collection of ideas for a wide audience, including people researching, attending, and making policy on charter schools in the United States and around the world. .


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Identifying leaders for urban charter, autonomous and independent schools
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ISSN: 14793660 ISBN: 1781905029 1299159621 1781905010 9781781905029 9781299159624 9781781905012 Year: 2013 Volume: v. 18 Publisher: Bingley, U.K. Emerald

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The focus of Social Justice Issues and Racism in the College Classroom is faculty and students of color at postsecondary institutions and the racial challenges they encounter in college classrooms. To achieve this aim, the book highlights the voices of various racial/ethnic groups of faculty and students, including international scholars. Additionally, the book will inform and bring attention to non-minority faculty and students of social justice issues related to race in the classroom and offer suggestions on how to be supportive of people of color. Several frameworks will be utilized in this book to assist readers in better understanding ideas, concepts, and practices. Specifically, a social justice framework, critical race theory, and White privilege are used to better explore the featured topics. Both quantitative and qualitative (e.g., auto-ethnographic, interviews, etc.) data are utilized throughout the book to give voice to the authors. Questions posed for this edited book are as follows: (1) How do faculty members include social justice issues related to race/ethnicity in their curricula? (2) How are issues associated with race or ethnicity discussed in the classroom by students, as well as minority and nonminority faculty? (3) What are the experiences of students of color in the classroom working with faculty of different races and ethnicities?.


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Left behind
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ISBN: 142141788X 9781421417882 9781421417875 1421417871 Year: 2015 Publisher: Baltimore

Rhetoric versus reality : what we know and what we need to know about school vouchers
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ISBN: 0833027654 0833032550 0585418381 9780585418384 9780833032553 9780833027658 Year: 2000 Publisher: Santa Monica : RAND Corporation,

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The authors examine the evidence on vouchers in education. They consider how vouchers would affect the academic achievement of participating and non-participating students, which students might use vouchers, who would supply and regulate schooling, and how much a voucher system would cost.


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School choice international
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ISBN: 0262270110 1435694074 0262309254 9780262270113 9781435694071 9780262033763 0262033763 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press

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This volume analyses and studies public-private partnerships in education and the varied forms they take in different parts of the world, for example it studies publicly-funded vouchers in Chile and Columbia and private schools in India.

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