"[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 st...
My First Handwriting Workbook Letters & Numbers with French words (Handwriting B:, #10)
by Nest Abcd Publisher
Las margaritas no se quieren marchitar
by Juan Antonio Endrino Vicens
Instant Letter Sounds Student Workbook #36
by Sweet Sounds of Reading
Happy Composition Notebook Size 6x9 Inches 120 Pages (College Ruled Student School Office Supplies Notebook, #10)
by Michelia Composition Notebook
Much has been written about how public schools in the United States are funded. However, missing in the current literature landscape is a nuanced discussion of funding as it relates to public charter schools. This text, authored by researchers and professionals working in the charter school world, provides readers with a comprehensive overview of issues related to the funding and operation of charter schools. The book opens with an introduction to charter schools and how they are funded. The fi...
Instant Letter Sounds Student Workbook #41
by Sweet Sounds of Reading
"Geraldlynn is a lively, astute 14-year-old. Her family, displaced by Hurricane Katrina, returns home to find a radically altered public education system. Geraldlynn's parents hope their daughter's new school will prepare her for college -- but the teenager has ideals and ambitions of her own. Aidan is a fresh-faced Harvard grad drawn to New Orleans by the possibility of bringing change to a flood-ravaged city. He teaches at an ambitious charter school with a group of newcomers determined to sho...
Single-Sex Versus Coeducational Schooling
by U S Department of Education
Unexplored Conditions of Charter School Principals
Unexplored Conditions of Charter School Principals: An Examination of the Issues and Challenges for Leaders, explores contemporary policy issues confronting charter school principals. The purpose of this book is to explore the issues and challenges confronted by charter school principals across an array of goals and expectations set forth by the policy and local context. By drawing on leadership and policy experts and researchers, we offer an in-depth examination of what current issues charter s...
Almost every major American city is experimenting with school choice - a deeply controversial idea that is dramatically reshaping public education. Will the wider array of school options help parents and educators identify better strategies for helping all children learn? Or will the high stakes of the marketplace end up privatising this most public of institutions? Education activist Sam Chaltain believes that before we can answer these questions, we must put a human face on the modern landscap...
Fcpcs Charter School Evaluation Systems for Classroom Teachers and Other Instructional Personnel
While educators, parents and policymakers are still debating the pros and cons of school choice, it is now possible to learn from choice experiments in public, private, and charter schools across the country. This book examines the evidence from these early school choice programs and looks at the larger implications of choice and competition in education. Paul Peterson makes a strong case for school choice in central cities, and coeditor Bryan Hassel offers the case for charter schools. John E....
Equality and Ethnic Identities
by Alice Akoshia Ayikaaley Sawyerr and Christopher Adam Bagley
This is a book about ethnocentric niche charter schools. What are they? When did they first appear? From where did the term come? How do they differ from regular charter schools and from district-run traditional public schools? Each subject chapter was created by a team consisting of at least one educational researcher and at least one charter school practitioner. The goal is to make the book readable for everyone (policymakers, parents, teachers, older students) while providing a framework of r...
While much of the debate over the growth of charter schools center on the student academic performance of charter schools as well as the financial impact that they have on school budgets, there is a growing concern that charter schools use harsh discipline to nudge certain students out. The concern is that charter schools use excessive discipline not just to bring about order and rigor in schools, but to push students who might cost more to educate or lower test scores to leave charter schools....
Journeys of Charter School Creators
by Maria M. Leahy and Rebecca A. Shore
Journeys of Charter School Creators tells of the journeys of ten thriving charter schools throughout the United States and their leaders over the past 20 years. The first seven cases are follow-up stories from the original book published in 2004, Adventures of Charter School Creators: Leading from the Ground Up. The final three cases feature three North Carolina charter schools and their leaders. Each leaders' narrative reveals amazing journeys with different paths taken, different choices mad...
Excluded by Choice (Disability, Culture, and Equity)
Through powerful narratives of parents of Black and Latinx students with disabilities, this book provides a unique look at the relationship between disability, race, urban space, and market-driven educational policies. Offering significant insights into complex forms of educational exclusion, the text illustrates the actual challenges and paradoxes of school choice faced by today's parents. Included are explanations for the kinds of injustices students with disabilities face every day, as well a...