A Guide to Charter Schools Research and Practical Advice for Educators

, by Kayes, Myron S.; Maranto, Robert; Agam, Kimberly Firetag; Ashley, Amy; Brown, Heath; Buck, John; Carpenter, Brian L.; Gau, Rebecca; Hassel, Bryan C., PhD; Henig, Jeffrey R.; Hess, Frederick M.; Holyoke, Thomas T.; Lacireno-Paquet, Natalie; Maranto, April

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ISBN: 9781578864041 | 1578864046
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 5/12/2006

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With a mix of academic and applied essays, this book is a must for academics, policy wonks, students, and charter operators.

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1 Charter Schools and School Reform: What We Know and Where We'll Go

(12)

Robert Maranto, Myron S. Kayes, and April Gresham Maranto

2 Book Review: Tinkering Toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform

(16)

Liane Zimny

3 Big City Schools Are Not in Kansas: Can We Improve City Schools Without School Choice? Not in Your Lifetime!

(4)

Robert Maranto

4 The Spinning Wheels of Urban School Reform

(8)

Frederick M. Hess

5 R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Teacher Abuse and How to End It

(10)

Robert Maranto

6 Smaller Classes or Better Teachers?

(12)

Lewis C. Sohnon and Kimberly Firetag Agam

7 Why So Many Arizona Certified Teachers Aren't in the Classroom

(6)

Rebecca Gau and Louann Bierlein Palmer

8 Where's the Alternative? Identifying, Training, and Certifying

(10)

Amy Ashley and Mike Kayes

9 Revenge of the (Nerdy) Professors: Scholarly Research on Charter Schools and Why It Matters

(12)

Robert Maranto

10 Personnel Policy in Traditional Public, Charter, and Private Schools

(10)

Michael Podgursky

11 Future of Chartered Schools—The Supply Side

101

(10)

Myatt C. Hassel

12 Charter School Accountability Issues—Pragmatic or Political?

111

(10)

Heather Zavadsky

13 Teacher Quality Leadership from Public Charter Schools

121

(8)

Michael B. Poliakoff

14 Does Mission Matter? Exploring a Typology of Charter School Orientation

129

(20)

Jeffrey R. Henig, Natalie Lacireno-Paquet, Thomas T. Holyoke, and Heath Brown

15 How the Best Laid Schemes Go Astray: The Agony and (Occasional) Ecstasy of Charter Start-ups

149

(8)

Robert Maranto

16 Whose idea Was This Anyway? The Continually Challenging Metamorphosis from Private to Charter

157

(12)

Jim Spencer

17 If You Build It, They Will Come

169

(16)

John Buck

18 Measurement: The Key To Charter School Marketing

185

(10)

Brian L. Carpenter

19 When Charter Schools Have a Distinct Advantage Over Districts, or Show Me the (Grant) Money

195

(12)

Amy Ashley and Mike Kayes

20 Horror Stories

207

(12)

Robert Maranto

21 He Said/He Said: .A Debate about Charters

219

(6)

Mike Kayes and Robert Maranto

About the Contributors

225

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A Guide to Charter Schools Research and Practical Advice for Educators

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