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Inside charter schools : the paradox of radical decentralization /

Deepening disaffection with conventional public schools has inspired flight to private schools, home schooling, and new alternatives, such as charter schools. Barely a decade old, the charter school movement has attracted a colorful band of supporters, from presidential candidates, to ethnic activis...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fuller, Bruce
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2002.
Edición:1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction, Growing charter schools, decentering the state ; Public square, big or small? : charter schools in political context / Bruce Fuller
  • We hold on to our kids, we hold on tight : tandem charters in Michigan / Patty Yancey
  • Empowering spirit is not enough : a Latino charter school struggles over leadership / Edward Wexler and Luis A. Huerta
  • Selling air : New England parents spark a new revolution / Kate Zernike
  • Diversity and inequality : Montera Charter High School / Amy Stuart Wells, Jennifer Jellison Holme, and Ash Vasudeva
  • Losing public accountability : a home schooling charter / Luis A. Huerta
  • Teachers as communitarians : a charter school cooperative in Minnesota / Eric Rofes
  • Breaking away or pulling together? : making decentralization work / Bruce Fuller.