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Charter schools : from reform imagery to reform reality
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Charter schools : from reform imagery to reform reality

Author: Jeanne M Powers
Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Series: Palgrave studies in urban education.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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This book begins with the claims of policymakers and explores charter schools at each stage of the policymaking process, from legislation to implementation. Powers carefully and thoroughly examines how features of schools' policy contexts shape the ways that charter school reform unfolds at schools, providing a nuanced portrait of the schools participating in this much discussed and little understood reform movement.  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jeanne M Powers
ISBN: 023060627X 9780230606272
OCLC Number: 181601083
Description: xiv, 243 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Charter schools in the reform imagination --
Mapping the terrain of charter school reform --
State level policy action --
School level implementation : charter school reform on the ground --
How policy contexts shape implementation --
Policy dynamics: schools and accountability policies --
The relationship between policy talk and implementation --
Charter school reform : sweeping claims and modest progress.
Series Title: Palgrave studies in urban education.
Responsibility: Jeanne M. Powers.
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Abstract:

This book begins with the claims of policymakers and explores charter schools at each stage of the policymaking process, from legislation to implementation. Powers carefully and thoroughly examines how features of schools' policy contexts shape the ways that charter school reform unfolds at schools, providing a nuanced portrait of the schools participating in this much discussed and little understood reform movement. While policymakers are often prone to making sweeping claims about the efficacy of charter schools, in practice charter school reform is much more complex. By drawing on an extensive and compelling range of data, Powers assesses the validity of policymakers' claims.

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