Charter Schools: Creating Hope and Opportunity for American Education

by Joe Nathan

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"[One of] the best books on schools and schooling to cross oureditors' desks this year."

--The American School Board Journal, August 1997

Award-winning former public school educator Joe Nathan draws fromnationwide surveys, research, and visits to dozens of charterschools to address key questions about charter schools. Who startsthese schools? What kinds of students attAnd? Are charter schoolsusing ideas and techniques from which other schools can learn? Arethese schools actually helping students? Are charter schools makingan impact on the larger educational system?
  • ISBN13 9780470534373
  • Publish Date 18 May 2009 (first published 24 October 1996)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Imprint Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.