Charter Schools: Creating Hope and Opportunity for American Education (Jossey Bass Education Series) - Tapa dura

?Along with school choice, charter schools are the most important education reform of our times. This book, by a pioneer of education reform, will tell you everything you want to know about them in clear, lucid prose.? --David Osborne, coauthor of Reinventing Government and managing partner, The Reinventing Government Network ?A useful and persuasive description of the state of the art' of charter school foundations by one of the movement's earliest, most articulate, and best informed advocates.? ----Theodore R. Sizer, chairman, Coalition of Essential Schools ?A comprehensive guide for the hopeful, the desperate, and the cynical educators, policy makers and public who wish to create public schools better fit for today's and tomorrow's children.? ----Yvonne Chan, principal, Vaughn Next Century Learning Center

"[One of] the best books on schools and schooling to cross our editors' desks this year." --The American School Board Journal, August 1997 Award-winning former public school educator Joe Nathan draws from nationwide surveys, research, and visits to dozens of charter schools to address key questions about charter schools. Who starts these schools? What kinds of students attAnd? Are charter schools using ideas and techniques from which other schools can learn? Are these schools actually helping students? Are charter schools making an impact on the larger educational system?