Taking account of charter schools
Subtitle: what's happened and what's next?
By: Katrina E. Bulkley, Priscilla Wohlstetter, editors ; foreword by Paul T. Hill.
Contributors: Bulkley, Katrina E.; Wohlstetter, Priscilla, 1953-
Series: Critical issues in educational leadership series
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Charter schools -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-208) and index.
Table of contents: title: Less red tape or more green teachers: charter school autonomy and teacher qualifications -- Marisa Burian-Fitzgerald, Michael T. Luekens, and Gregory A. Strizek; title: Professional opportunities for teachers: a view from inside charter schools -- Christopher Nelson and Gary Miron; title: Does autonomy matter? implementing research-based practices in charter and other public schools -- Priscilla Wohlstetter and Derrick Chau; title: Charter school innovation in theory and practice: autonomy, R & D, and curricular conformity -- Christopher Lubienski; title: Localized ideas of fairness: inequality among charter schools -- Bruce Fuller, Marytza Gawlik, Emlei Kuboyama Gonzales, and Sandra Park; title: Balancing act: educational management organizations and charter school autonomy -- Katrina E. Bulkley; title: Balancing disparate visions: an analysis of special education in charter schools -- Lauren Morando Rhim, Eileen M. Ahearn, Cheryl M. Lange, and Margaret J. McLaughlin; title: Student achievement in charter schools: what we know and why we know so little -- Gary Miron and Christopher Nelson; title: Lighting out for the territory: charter schools and school reform strategy-- David N. Plank and Gary Sykes.