The Strategic Management of Charter Schools
Subtitle: Frameworks and Tools for Educational Entrepreneurs
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Published: Sep 01, 2011
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781612500973
Description: The Strategic Management of Charter Schools addresses the challenges facing such schools by mapping out, in straightforward and highly pragmatic terms, a management framework for them. The first charter school law in the United States was enacted in Minnesota in 1991. In the twenty years since that modest beginning, the movement has burgeoned and spread across the country: there are now more than five thousand charter schools attended by nearly two million students. Yet due to this rapid growth in the number of charter schools and to their generally independent character, the nature and quality of these institutions vary greatly. The promise of charter schools is great, but so are the organizational and educational challenges they face. Organized around three crucial challenges to charter school leaders--managing mission, managing internal operations, and managing the larger stakeholder environment--the book provides charter school leaders with indispensable tools and insights for achieving educational and organizational success. In its elucidation of these managerial challenges, and in its equally helpful and detailed examinations of particular schools, the book offers a clear, credible approach to the efficient and sustainable management of what are still young and experimental educational institutions.--Publisher description.
Notes: Source title: The Strategic Management of Charter Schools: Frameworks and Tools for Educational Entrepreneurs (Educational Innovations Series)