Charter School Outcomes

by Berends; Mark

• ISBN13: 9780805862218
• ISBN10: 0805862218
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-08-23
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Sponsored by the National Center on School Choice, a research consortium headed by Vanderbilt University, this volume examines the growth and outcomes of the charter school movement. Starting in 1992-93 when the nations first charter school was opened in Minneapolis, the movement has now spread to 40 states and the District of Columbia and by 2005-06 enrolled 1,040,536 students in 3,613 charter schools. The purpose of this volume is to help monitor this fast-growing movement by compiling, organizing and making available some of the most rigorous and policy-relevant research on K-12 charter schools. Key features of this important new book include: Expertise The National Center on School Choice includes internationally known scholars from the following institutions: Harvard University, Brown University, Stanford University, Brookings Institution, National Bureau of Economic Research and Northwest Evaluation Association. Cross-Disciplinary Thevolume brings together material from related disciplines and methodologies that are associated with the individual and systemic effects of charter schools. Coherent Structure Each section begins with a lengthy introduction that summarizes the themes and major findings of that section. A summarizing chapter by Mark Schneider, the Commissioner of the National Center on Educational Statistics, concludes the book. This volume is appropriate researchers, instructors and graduate students in educationpolicy programs and in political science and economics, as well as in-service administrators, policy makers, and providers.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. xiii
Assessing Teaching and Learning in Charter Schools
Methods of Assessing Achievement of Students in Charter Schools	p. 7
Teachers' Academic Focus on Learning in Charter and Traditional Public Schools	p. 39
Teams Versus Bureaucracies: Personnel Policy, Wage Setting, and Teacher Quality in Traditional Public, Charter, and Private Schools	p. 61
Charter School Finance, Governance, and Law
Back to the Future: Sustaining an Equitable Public-Private Model of School Funding	p. 85
Charter School Governance	p. 113
Charter Law and Charter Operation: Re-examining the Charter School Marketplace	p. 131
Charter School Effects on Student Achievement
Charter Schools in California	p. 163
Charter Schools in North Carolina	p. 195
Charter Schools in Idaho	p. 221
Charter School Effects on Achievement: Where We Are and Where We Are Going	p. 243
School Choice: What the NCES Can and Cannot Tell Us	p. 267
Index	p. 283
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