A Guide to Charter Schools Research and Practical Advice for Educators

by Kayes, Myron S.; Maranto, Robert; Agam, Kimberly Firetag; Ashley, Amy; Brown, Heath; Buck, John; Carpenter, Brian L.; Gau, Rebecca; Hassel, Bryan C., PhD; Henig, Jeffrey R.; Hess, Frederick M.; Holyoke, Thomas T.; Lacireno-Paquet, Natalie; Maranto, April

• ISBN13: 9781578864041
• ISBN10: 1578864046
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-12
• Publisher: R&L Education

Summary

With a mix of academic and applied essays, this book is a must for academics, policy wonks, students, and charter operators.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	v
1 Charter Schools and School Reform: What We Know and Where We'll Go	1	(12)
Robert Maranto, Myron S. Kayes, and April Gresham Maranto
2 Book Review: Tinkering Toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform	13	(16)
Liane Zimny
3 Big City Schools Are Not in Kansas: Can We Improve City Schools Without School Choice? Not in Your Lifetime!	29	(4)
Robert Maranto
4 The Spinning Wheels of Urban School Reform	33	(8)
Frederick M. Hess
5 R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Teacher Abuse and How to End It	41	(10)
Robert Maranto
6 Smaller Classes or Better Teachers?	51	(12)
Lewis C. Sohnon and Kimberly Firetag Agam
7 Why So Many Arizona Certified Teachers Aren't in the Classroom	63	(6)
Rebecca Gau and Louann Bierlein Palmer
8 Where's the Alternative? Identifying, Training, and Certifying	69	(10)
Amy Ashley and Mike Kayes
9 Revenge of the (Nerdy) Professors: Scholarly Research on Charter Schools and Why It Matters	79	(12)
Robert Maranto
10 Personnel Policy in Traditional Public, Charter, and Private Schools	91	(10)
Michael Podgursky
11 Future of Chartered Schools—The Supply Side	101	(10)
Myatt C. Hassel
12 Charter School Accountability Issues—Pragmatic or Political?	111	(10)
Heather Zavadsky
13 Teacher Quality Leadership from Public Charter Schools	121	(8)
Michael B. Poliakoff
14 Does Mission Matter? Exploring a Typology of Charter School Orientation	129	(20)
Jeffrey R. Henig, Natalie Lacireno-Paquet, Thomas T. Holyoke, and Heath Brown
15 How the Best Laid Schemes Go Astray: The Agony and (Occasional) Ecstasy of Charter Start-ups	149	(8)
Robert Maranto
16 Whose idea Was This Anyway? The Continually Challenging Metamorphosis from Private to Charter	157	(12)
Jim Spencer
17 If You Build It, They Will Come	169	(16)
John Buck
18 Measurement: The Key To Charter School Marketing	185	(10)
Brian L. Carpenter
19 When Charter Schools Have a Distinct Advantage Over Districts, or Show Me the (Grant) Money	195	(12)
Amy Ashley and Mike Kayes
20 Horror Stories	207	(12)
Robert Maranto
21 He Said/He Said: .A Debate about Charters	219	(6)
Mike Kayes and Robert Maranto
About the Contributors	225