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Charter schools : creating hope and opportunity for American education
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Charter schools : creating hope and opportunity for American education

Author: Joe Nathan
Publisher: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1999.
Series: The Jossey-Bass education series
Edition/Format: Book : English : 1st pbk. edView all editions and formats
Summary:
Unresponsive and bureaucratic are two words that parents, educators, and legislators often use to describe our public education system. Frustrated by having their ideas ignored and their skills neither recognized nor rewarded, thousands of educators and parents are taking matters into their own hands and obtaining charters to create a new kind of public school. Charter schools are supported by taxes and required to
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Joe Nathan
ISBN: 0787944548 9780787944544
OCLC Number: 40969145
Description: xxxiv, 254 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction : a new choice -- Introducing charter schools : A tour of charter schools ; The birth of a movement -- How charter schools are changing the system : Breaking the district monopoly ; A new role for unions -- Creating charter schools : Getting started ; Building support ; Staying in business -- Where to, what next : Key early lessons ; Charting the future.
Series Title: The Jossey-Bass education series
Responsibility: Joe Nathan.
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Abstract:

Unresponsive and bureaucratic are two words that parents, educators, and legislators often use to describe our public education system. Frustrated by having their ideas ignored and their skills neither recognized nor rewarded, thousands of educators and parents are taking matters into their own hands and obtaining charters to create a new kind of public school. Charter schools are supported by taxes and required to produce measurable gains in student achievement, or else close. They operate independently of most district and state regulation - cutting through the bureaucratic nightmare that often accompanies school restructuring. Thoughtful, fair competition, so central to the charter idea, is turning out to give school systems a run for their money.

Based on nationwide surveys, research, and visits to dozens of charter schools, award-winning former public school educator Joe Nathan addresses the key questions about these revolutionary schools. Who starts charter schools? What kind of students attend? Are charter schools using ideas and techniques other schools can and should learn from? Are these schools actually helping students? Are charter schools having an impact on the larger system? Nathan's book also explains why both liberals and conservatives, including people who oppose vouchers, support the charter approach. He describes the key elements of the charter idea and explains how it differs from strategies like magnet schools, vouchers, and site management.

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