Charter Schools [electronic resource] : From Reform Imagery to Reform Reality /
Powers, J.author.
This book begins with the claims of policymakers and explores charter schools at each stage of the policymaking process, from legislation to implementation. Powers carefully and thoroughly examines how features of schools' policy contexts shape the ways that charter school reform unfolds at schools, providing a nuanced portrait of the schools participating in this much discussed and little understood reform movement. While policymakers are often prone to making sweeping claims about the efficacy of charter schools, in practice charter school reform is much more complex. By drawing on an extensive and compelling range of data, Powers assesses the validity of policymakers claims.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figure; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Charter Schools in the Reform Imagination; 1 Mapping the Terrain of Charter School Reform; 2 State Level Policy Action; 3 School Level Implementation: Charter School Reform ""On the Ground""; 4 How Policy Contexts Shape Implementation; 5 Policy Dynamics-Schools and Accountability Policies; 6 The Relationship between Policy Talk and Implementation; Conclusion: Charter School Reform-Sweeping Claims and Modest Progress; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book begins with the claims of policymakers and explores charter schools at each stage of the policymaking process, from legislation to implementation. Powers carefully and thoroughly examines how features of schools' policy contexts shape the ways that charter school reform unfolds at schools, providing a nuanced portrait of the schools participating in this much discussed and little understood reform movement. While policymakers are often prone to making sweeping claims about the efficacy of charter schools, in practice charter school reform is much more complex. By drawing on an extensive and compelling range of data, Powers assesses the validity of policymakers claims.
School management and organization.
School administration.
Education-Philosophy.
Education-History.
Educational policy.
Education and state.
Administration, Organization and Leadership.
Educational Philosophy.
History of Education.
Educational Policy and Politics.