Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Schools - Types - Charter

Serious and bookish, Caroline Tompkins never imagined becoming an elementary school principal. Her memoir reveals an improbable fifteen-year journey running two schools in her hometown, a place where the American Dream meets the social politics of the borderlands. This principal's personal story exposes the inner workings of a job crucial to our nation, but a job in turmoil just below its hearty and earnest surface. Principal brings to life the swirl of a single day in the spring of her final year on the job, a day in which conversations and crises, children and adults, missteps and small...

For more than a decade, school choice has been a flashpoint in debates about our nation's schooling. Perhaps the most commonly advanced argument for school choice is the notion that markets will force public schools to improve, particularly in those urban areas where improvement has proved so elusive. However, the question of how public schools respond to market conditions has received surprisingly little attention. Revolution at the Margins examines the impact of school vouchers and charter schooling on three urban school districts, explores the causes of the behavior observed, and...

In 1999, Noelani Goodyear-Ka'ōpua was among a group of young educators and parents who founded Hālau Kū Māna, a secondary school that remains one of the only Hawaiian culture-based charter schools in urban Honolulu. The Seeds We Planted tells the story of Hālau Kū Māna against the backdrop of the Hawaiian struggle for self-determination and the U.S. charter school movement, revealing a critical tension: the successes of a school celebrating indigenous culture are measured by the standards of settler colonialism.

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"A convenient, information-rich source for anyone interested in schooling." – Library Journal

This title gives readers a clear understanding of the true state of public and private education systems in the USA by refuting falsehoods, misunderstandings, and exaggerations – and confirming the validity of other assertions.

Issues covered include categories of public and private schools and variations in academic performance and socioeconomic status therein; controversies surrounding school choice, including school vouchers and charter schools;...

This book brings together work by national and international scholars committed to honouring and building on the work of a passionate educator and lifelong advocate for children: Professor Anne Smith.

Anne Smith was at the forefront of the children's rights movement for several decades. She was a leader in childhood studies, the foundational director of the Children's Issues Centre and a pioneer in evidence-based policy and practice. For more than four decades she wrote, researched and spoke about the rights of children as people and citizens, the right to quality childcare and the...