School Choice In The Real World: Lessons From Arizona Charter Schools

by Maranto,Robert

• ISBN13: 9780813398204
• ISBN10: 0813398207
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-03-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book presents the first published accounts and evaluations of the first free market in education in the U.S., Arizona charter schools.

Author Biography

Robert A. Maranto is an assistant professor of political science and public administration at Villanova University. He has authored or edited numerous scholarly works, including Politics and Bureaucracy in the Modern PresidencyandRadical Reform of the Civil Service.Scott Milliman is associate professor of economics at James Madison University. His research interests include U.S. education policy and the management of natural resources. Frederick M. Hess is assistant professor of government and education at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Spinning Wheels: The Politics of Urban School Reform. April W. Gresham s a researcher, writer, and statistician living in Villanova, Pennsylvania. She holds a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Minnesota. Robert A. Maranto is an assistant professor of political science and public administration at Villanova University. He has authored or edited numerous scholarly works, including Politics and Bureaucracy in the Modern PresidencyandRadical Reform of the Civil Service.Scott Milliman is associate professor of economics at James Madison University. His research interests include U.S. education policy and the management of natural resources. Frederick M. Hess is assistant professor of government and education at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Spinning Wheels: The Politics of Urban School Reform. April W. Gresham s a researcher, writer, and statistician living in Villanova, Pennsylvania. She holds a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Minnesota. Robert A. Maranto is an assistant professor of political science and public administration at Villanova University. He has authored or edited numerous scholarly works, including Politics and Bureaucracy in the Modern PresidencyandRadical Reform of the Civil Service.Scott Milliman is associate professor of economics at James Madison University. His research interests include U.S. education policy and the management of natural resources. Frederick M. Hess is assistant professor of government and education at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Spinning Wheels: The Politics of Urban School Reform. April W. Gresham s a researcher, writer, and statistician living in Villanova, Pennsylvania. She holds a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Minnesota. Robert A. Maranto is an assistant professor of political science and public administration at Villanova University. He has authored or edited numerous scholarly works, including Politics and Bureaucracy in the Modern PresidencyandRadical Reform of the Civil Service.Scott Milliman is associate professor of economics at James Madison University. His research interests include U.S. education policy and the management of natural resources. Frederick M. Hess is assistant professor of government and education at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Spinning Wheels: The Politics of Urban School Reform. April W. Gresham s a researcher, writer, and statistician living in Villanova, Pennsylvania. She holds a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Minnesota.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
List of Acronyms	xiii
Real World School Choice: Arizona Charter Schools	1	(18)
Robert Maranto
Scott Milliman
Frederick Hess
April Gresham
Part One Theoretical and National Perspectives
And This Parent Went to Market: Education as Public Versus Private Good	19	(20)
L. Elaine Halchin
The Death of One Best Way: Charter Schools as Reinventing Government	39	(19)
Robert Maranto
Congress and Charter Schools	58	(10)
David L. Leal
Charter Schools: A National Innovation, an Arizona Revolution	68	(31)
Bryan C. Hassel
Part Two Social Scientists Look at Arizona Charter Schools
The Wild West of Education Reform: Arizona Charter Schools	99	(16)
Robert Maranto
April Gresham
Why Arizona Embarked on School Reform (and Nevada Did Not)	115	(14)
Stephanie Timmons-Brown
Frederick Hess
Do Charter Schools Improve District Schools? Three Approaches to the Question	129	(13)
Robert Maranto
Scott Milliman
Frederick Hess
April Gresham
Closing Charters: How a Good Theory Failed in Practice	142	(17)
Gregg A. Garn
Robert T. Stout
Nothing New: Curricula in Arizona Charter Schools	159	(14)
Robert T. Stout
Gregg A. Garn
How Arizona Teachers View School Reform	173	(16)
Frederick Hess
Robert Maranto
Scott Milliman
April Gresham
Part Three Practitioners Look at Arizona Charter Schools
The Empowerment of Market-Based School Reform	189	(9)
Lisa Graham Keegan
A Voice from the State Legislature: Don't Do What Arizona Did!	198	(14)
Mary Hartley
Public Schools and the Charter Movement: An Emerging Relationship	212	(10)
Lee L. Hager
Whose Idea Was This Anyway? The Challenging Metamorphosis from Private to Charter	222	(15)
Jim Spencer
Part Four Lessons
In Lieu of Conclusions: Tentative Lessons from a Contested Frontier	237	(12)
Robert Maranto
Scott Milliman
Frederick Hess
April Gresham
About the Editors and Contributors	249	(4)
Index	253