Charter schools : lessons in school reform / Liane Brouillette.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brouillette, Liane, 1947-

Series:

Topics in educational leadership

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Charter schools--United States.

Charter schools.

United States.

Educational change--United States.

Educational change.

Physical Description:

xiii, 270 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2002.

Summary:

Investigates the strengths & limitations of charter & magnet schools as an approach to reform by focusing on the day-to-day reality of students, teachers, administrators, & parents involved with charter and magnet schools. A case study approach is used.

Contents:

Charter schools : redefining a social contract?

The "prehistory" of charter schools

Pioneering change : the experiences of three Colorado charter schools

Politics versus the best of intentions : a case study of a school-university collaboration

Beating the odds in the inner city : Wesley Elementary becomes a charter school

Understanding the complexities of success in the making of a new setting : case study of the University of Houston Charter School of Technology

Behind the rhetoric : the agony, the ecstasy of being first

Building a theoretical framework : commonalities and contrasts

Beyond economics and politics : charter schools as mediating institutions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0805837248

OCLC:

48055748