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Charter schools : hope or hype? / Jack Buckley and Mark Schneider.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (343 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781400831852
  • 1400831857
  • 1282458531
  • 9781282458536
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Charter schools.DDC classification:
  • 371.010973 22
LOC classification:
  • LB2806.36 .B83 2009eb
Other classification:
  • 81.12
  • DV 2850
  • 5,3
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; CHAPTER 2 The Evolution of Charter-School Choice in the District of Columbia; CHAPTER 3 The Panel Study; CHAPTER 4 Are Charter-School Students Harder to Educate than Those in the Traditional Public Schools?; CHAPTER 5 Shopping for Schools on the Internet Using DCSchoolSearch.com; CHAPTER 6 What Do Parents Want from Schools? It Depends on How You Ask; CHAPTER 7 School Choice and the Importance of Parental Information.
Summary: Over the past several years, privately run, publicly funded charter schools have been sold to the American public as an education alternative promising better student achievement, greater parent satisfaction, and more vibrant school communities. But are charter schools delivering on their promise? Or are they just hype as critics contend, a costly experiment that is bleeding tax dollars from public schools? In this book, Jack Buckley and Mark Schneider tackle these questions about one of the thorniest policy reforms in the nation today. Using an exceptionally rigorous research approach, the au.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-334) and index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; CHAPTER 2 The Evolution of Charter-School Choice in the District of Columbia; CHAPTER 3 The Panel Study; CHAPTER 4 Are Charter-School Students Harder to Educate than Those in the Traditional Public Schools?; CHAPTER 5 Shopping for Schools on the Internet Using DCSchoolSearch.com; CHAPTER 6 What Do Parents Want from Schools? It Depends on How You Ask; CHAPTER 7 School Choice and the Importance of Parental Information.

Over the past several years, privately run, publicly funded charter schools have been sold to the American public as an education alternative promising better student achievement, greater parent satisfaction, and more vibrant school communities. But are charter schools delivering on their promise? Or are they just hype as critics contend, a costly experiment that is bleeding tax dollars from public schools? In this book, Jack Buckley and Mark Schneider tackle these questions about one of the thorniest policy reforms in the nation today. Using an exceptionally rigorous research approach, the au.

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