What's Public About Charter Schools?: Lessons Learned About Choice and Accountability - Brossura

Miron, Gary; Nelson NULL, Dr. Christopher D.

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ISBN 10: 0761945385 ISBN 13: 9780761945383

Casa editrice: Corwin, 2002

Riassunto

This book is a valuable tool for analyzing the success of the private/public hybrid in serving the core purpose of public education. 

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"What’s Public About Charter Schools? provides valuable insights for charter school operators and advocates, school administrators, community members, politicians, and policy makers looking for data upon which to base decision making. Miron and Nelson have lived school reform evaluation for years, and their experience shows in this thoughtful and useful book." (Kyle L. Peck, Charter School Founder and Professor of Education)

"This is the most comprehensive book that I have seen on charter schools. Both the descriptive data and the analysis are an important contribution."  (Henry M. Levin, Director)

"Miron and Nelson make a significant contribution to the debate about school restructuring reforms provide a strikingly balanced look at the charter school movement in action. Their conclusions and recommendations offer important lessons to school reformers, researchers, and policymakers both in the United States and internationally." (Priscilla Wohlstetter, Director)

"This book covers essential material and will be of interest for classes on education policy and educational administration and will command an audience among school reformers and policy analysts." (William L. Boyd, Distinguished Professor of Education)

"What's Public About Charter Schools? by Gary Miron and Christopher Nelson deserves to be cited repeatedly as the debate about charter schools continues. The researchers' careful and balanced analysis of the situation in Michigan has much to say about the charter school movement across the country and leads to important cautions about whether and how the movement should proceed. These recommendations provide concrete and practical solutions for improving charter schools by addressing some of the shortcoming that the authors have uncovered." (Education Review, October 2002)

"The greatest strength of Miron and Nelson’s volume is that . . . it provides the most comprehensive overview of how a school choice program works." (Educational Researcher, March 2003)

“What’s Public About Charter Schools? offers an interesting and comprehensive study of a significant charter sector. Policy-makers looking for ideas about what to do an not do would be wise to read What’s Public About Charter Schools.” (On-line journal, The National Charter School Clearinghouse)

L'autore:

Gary Miron has a diverse background in the field of education. He worked as a public school teacher in Michigan in the mid-1980s. Later he worked as an educational researcher and university instructor in the field of education. Currently, he is Principal Research Associate at Western Michigan University's Evaluation Center. There, he has completed or is working on a variety of school reform evaluations including evaluations of charter schools in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Illinois, and Cleveland. In Connecticut and Cleveland, he has been involved in providing training and technical assistance to charter schools in terms of helping them develop and implement accountability plans and self-evaluations. He has also conducted a study of student achievement gains in schools operated by Edison Schools Inc. Before joining The Evaluation Center, Dr. Miron worked at Stockholm University where he had completed his graduate studies. While in Sweden he conducted a study on the national voucher reform in the early 1990s and later took part in a study of school restructuring in Europe. He has researched and written on such topics as educational evaluation, special needs education, educational planning and policy, multimethod research, charter schools, and school reform.

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• Editore: Corwin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0761945385
• ISBN 13: 9780761945383
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 256