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Education’s Big Gamble: Charter Schools
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Serving over 105,000 students across the country, charter schools promise to educate students and to spend money wisely per the agreements of their approved charter. In exchange, they are exempt from most regulations and oversight. This documentary explores some of the most effective charter schools and some of the disasters in this new territory of public education.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com’s standard return policy will apply…. More >>
Education’s Big Gamble: Charter Schools
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New York City’s Best Public Elementary Schools: A Parent’s Guide
For this third edition, Clara and her staff visited nearly 500 of New York City’s elementary schools and chose 200 of the best schools to recommend. This essential guide uncovers the “inside scoop” on schools (the condition of the building, homework, teacher quality, etc.), includes a checklist of questions to ask on a school tour, and incorporates new listings of charter schools and “magnet” programs…. More >>
New York City’s Best Public Elementary Schools: A Parent’s Guide
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Organizing for Educational Justice: The Campaign for Public School Reform in the South Bronx
Since the 1980s, strategies for improving public education in America have focused on either competition through voucher programs and charter schools or standardization as enacted into federal law through No Child Left Behind. These reforms, however, have failed to narrow the performance gap between poor urban students and other children. In response, parents have begun to organize local campaigns to strengthen the public schools in their communities. One of the most original, successful, and influential of these parent-led campaigns has been the Community Collaborative to Improve District 9 (CC9), a consortium of six neighborhood-based groups in the Bronx. In Organizing for Educational Justice, Michael B. F… More >>
Organizing for Educational Justice: The Campaign for Public School Reform in the South Bronx
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Reforming Education: From Origins to Outcomes
Ambitious programs of education reform have been introduced by many governments around the world. Reforming Education is an important study of large-scale education reform in five different settings: England, New Zealand, the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Manitoba and the US state of Minnesota. The book looks at a variety of reforms covering: school choice; charter schools; increased testing of students; stricter curriculum guidelines; and local school management. Drawing from theoretical and empirical work in education, political theory, organizational theory and public administration, Reforming Education provides a clearly developed conceptual framework of analyzing reform programs. The author reviews the… More >>
Reforming Education: From Origins to Outcomes
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Serving Our Children: Charter School And The Reform Of American Public Education
Public education is failing America’s children—especially those in poor urban areas. Former Washington, D.C. Council member Kevin Chavous has long been an outspoken advocate for educational reform through the charter school movement. In his book “Serving Our Children,” Chavous explores what his city has learned from the charter school experience and what it means to American public education as a whole. Chavous shows how charter schools can serve as models for national public education reform across the country. He describes how greater flexibility and autonomy allow these schools to better serve the needs of students and their families…. More >>
Serving Our Children: Charter School And The Reform Of American Public Education
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