Robert Maranto, Scott Milliman, Frederick Hess

School Choice In The Real World

Lessons From Arizona Charter Schools

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents the first published accounts and evaluations of the first free market in education in the U.S., Arizona charter schools.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9780813398204
• ISBN-10: 0813398207
• Artikelnr.: 22271584

Autorenporträt

Frederick Hess, April Gresham

Inhaltsangabe

Real World School Choice: Arizona Charter Schools
(Robert Maranto, Scott Milliman, Frederick Hess, and April Gresham)
Theoretical and National Perspectives
And This Parent Went to Market: Education as Public vs. Private Good
(L. Elaine Halchin)
The Death of One Best Way: Charter Schools as Reinventing Government
(Robert Maranto)
Congress and Charter Schools
(David L.
Leal)
Charter Schools: A National
Innovation, an Arizona Revolution
(Bryan C. Hassel)
Social Scientists Look
at Arizona Charter Schools
The Wild West of
Education Reform: Arizona Charter Schools
(Robert Maranto and April Gresham)
Why Arizona Embarked on School Reform (and Nevada Did Not)
(Stephanie Timmons-Brown and Frederick Hess)
Do Charter Schools Improve District Schools? Three Approaches to the Question
(Robert Maranto, Scott Milliman, Frederick Hess, and April Gresham)
Closing Charters: How A Good Theory Failed in Practice
(Gregg A. Garn and Robert T. Stout)
Nothing New: Curricula in Arizona Charter Schools
(Robert T. Stout and Gregg A. Garn)
How Arizona Teachers View
School Reform
(Frederick Hess, Robert Maranto, Scott Milliman and April Gresham)
Practitioners Look at Arizona Charter Schools
The Empowerment of Market-Based School Reform
(Lisa Graham Keegan)
A Voice From the State Legislature: Dont Do What Arizona Did!
(Mary Hartley)
Public Schools and the Charter Movement: An Emerging Relationship
(Lee L. Hager)
Whose Idea Was This Anyway? The Challenging Metamorphosis from Private to Charter
(Jim Spencer)
Lessons
In Lieu of Conclusions: Tentative Lessons From a Contested Frontier
(Robert Maranto, Scott Milliman, Frederick Hess, and April Gresham).