Charter Schools
Subtitle: Hope or Hype?
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: July 2, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780691129853
Subjects: Schools; Education; Education / Teaching; USA; Administration - General; Political Science and International Relations; Sociology; Educational Policy & Reform; General; Charter schools; United States
Description: "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." "The authors investigate charter schools in Washington, D.C., carefully examining school data going back more than a decade, interpreting scores of interviews with parents, students, and teachers, and meticulously measuring how charter schools perform compared to traditional public schools. Their conclusions are sobering."--Jacket.