Charter school outcomes
By: edited by Mark Berends, Matthew G. Springer, Herbert J. Walberg ; Ann Primus, managing editor.
Contributors: Berends, Mark, 1962-.; Springer, Matthew G.; Walberg, Herbert J., 1937-
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780805862218; 9780805862225
Subjects: Charter schools -- United States -- Evaluation; Charter schools -- Accountability; Educational accountability -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Methods of assessing achievement of students in charter schools / Caroline Hoxby, Sonali Murarka; title: Teachers' academic focus on learning in charter and traditional public schools / Ellen Goldring, Xiu Cravens; title: Teams versus bureaucracies : personnel policy, wage-setting, and teacher quality in traditional public, charter, and private schools / Michael Podgursky; title: Back to the future : sustaining an equitable public-private model of school funding / Sheree Speakman; title: Charter school governance / Paul T. Hill and Robin J. Lake; title: Charter law and charter operation : re-examining the charter school marketplace / Kenneth K. Wong, Francis X. Shen; title: Charter schools in California / Ron Zimmer, Richard Buddin; title: Charter schools in North Carolina / Robert Bifulco, Helen Ladd; title: Charter schools in Idaho / Dale Ballou, Bettie Teasley, Tim Zeidner; title: Charter school effects on achievement : where we are and where we are going / Mark Berends ... [et al.]; title: School choice : what NCES can and cannot tell us / Mark Schneider, Peter Tice.