Inside Charter Schools : The Paradox of Radical Decentralization / ed. by Bruce Fuller.
Fuller, Bruce, contributor.; Fuller, Bruce, editor.; Huerta, Luis A, contributor.; Huerta, Luis A., contributor.; Jellison Holme, Jennifer, contributor.; Rofes, Eric, contributor.; Stuart Wells, Amy, contributor.; Vasudeva, Ash, contributor.; Wexler, Edward, contributor.; Yancey, Patty, contributor.; Zernike, Kate, contributor.
2022
LB2806.36 ǂb I57 2000eb
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Title Inside Charter Schools : The Paradox of Radical Decentralization / ed. by Bruce Fuller.
ISBN 9780674037427
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674037427
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2000
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (301 p.)
Item Number 10.4159/9780674037427 doi
Call Number LB2806.36 ǂb I57 2000eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 371.01
Summary Deepening disaffection with conventional public schools has inspired flight to private schools, home schooling, and new alternatives, such as charter schools. Barely a decade old, the charter school movement has attracted a colorful band of supporters, from presidential candidates, to ethnic activists, to the religious Right. At present there are about 1,700 charter schools, with total enrollment estimated to reach one million early in the century. Yet, until now, little has been known about the inner workings of these small, inventive schools that rely on public money but are largely independent of local school boards. Inside Charter Schools takes readers into six strikingly different schools, from an evangelical home-schooling charter in California to a back-to-basics charter in a black neighborhood in Lansing, Michigan. With a keen eye for human aspirations and dilemmas, the authors provide incisive analysis of the challenges and problems facing this young movement. Do charter schools really spur innovation, or do they simply exacerbate tribal forms of American pluralism? Inside Charter Schools provides shrewd and illuminating studies of the struggles and achievements of these new schools, and offers practical lessons for educators, scholars, policymakers, and parents.
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Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)
Added Author Fuller, Bruce, contributor.
Fuller, Bruce, editor.
Huerta, Luis A, contributor.
Huerta, Luis A., contributor.
Jellison Holme, Jennifer, contributor.
Rofes, Eric, contributor.
Stuart Wells, Amy, contributor.
Vasudeva, Ash, contributor.
Wexler, Edward, contributor.
Yancey, Patty, contributor.
Zernike, Kate, contributor.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Growing Charter Schools, Decentering the State
1 The Public Square, Big or Small? Charter Schools in Political Context
2 We Hold on to Our Kids,We Hold on Tight: Tandem Charters in Michigan
3 An Empowering Spirit Is Not Enough: A Latino Charter School Struggles over Leadership
4 Selling Air: New England Parents Spark a New Revolution
5 Diversity and Inequality: Montera Charter High School
6 Losing Public Accountability: A Home Schooling Charter
7 Teachers as Communitarians: A Charter School Cooperative in Minnesota
8 Breaking Away or Pulling Together? Making Decentralization Work
Notes
Contributors
Index

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