What′s Public About Charter Schools?

Lessons Learned About Choice and Accountability

Gary Miron author Christopher D Nelson author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc

Published:7th May '02

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

This paperback is available in another edition too:

What′s Public About Charter Schools? cover

"What′s Public About Charter Schools? by Gary Miron and Christopher Nelson deserves to be cited repeatedly as the debate about charter schools continues. The researchers′ careful and balanced analysis of the situation in Michigan has much to say about the charter school movement across the country and leads to important cautions about whether and how the movement should proceed. These recommendations provide concrete and practical solutions for improving charter schools by addressing some of the shortcoming that the authors have uncovered."
—Education Review
, October 2002

"What′s Public About Charter Schools? provides valuable insights for charter school operators and advocates, school administrators, community members, politicians, and policy makers looking for data upon which to base decision making. Miron and Nelson have lived school reform evaluation for years, and their experience shows in this thoughtful and useful book."
Kyle L. Peck, Charter School Founder and Professor of Education
Pennsylvania State University

"This is the most comprehensive book that I have seen on charter schools. Both the descriptive data and the analysis are an important contribution."
Henry M. Levin, Director
National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education
Teachers College, Columbia University

"Miron and Nelson make a significant contribution to the debate about school restructuring reforms provide a strikingly balanced look at the charter school movement in action. Their conclusions and recommendations offer important lessons to school reformers, researchers, and policymakers both in the United States and internationally."
Priscilla Wohlstetter, Director
Center on Educational Governance
Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California

"This book covers essential material and will be of interest for classes on education policy and educational administration and will command an audience among school reformers and policy analysts."
William L. Boyd, Distinguished Professor of Education
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA

How much do we really know about the quality of education in charter schools?

Here are the documentedanswers to the questions we all have about student achievement, choice, innovation, and accountability:

    • How do students in charter schools perform compared to students in public, non-charter schools?
    • Have charter schools succeeded as "laboratories" of educational innovation?
    • How do the costs of charter schools compare with non-charter schools?...

"What’s Public About Charter Schools? provides valuable insights for charter school operators and advocates, school administrators, community members, politicians, and policy makers looking for data upon which to base decision making. Miron and Nelson have lived school reform evaluation for years, and their experience shows in this thoughtful and useful book." -- Kyle L. Peck, Charter School Founder and Professor of Education
"This is the most comprehensive book that I have seen on charter schools. Both the descriptive data and the analysis are an important contribution."  -- Henry M. Levin, Director
"Miron and Nelson make a significant contribution to the debate about school restructuring reforms provide a strikingly balanced look at the charter school movement in action. Their conclusions and recommendations offer important lessons to school reformers, researchers, and policymakers both in the United States and internationally." -- Priscilla Wohlstetter, Director
"This book covers essential material and will be of interest for classes on education policy and educational administration and will command an audience among school reformers and policy analysts." -- William L. Boyd, Distinguished Professor of Education
"What′s Public About Charter Schools? by Gary Miron and Christopher Nelson deserves to be cited repeatedly as the debate about charter schools continues. The researchers′ careful and balanced analysis of the situation in Michigan has much to say about the charter school movement across the country and leads to important cautions about whether and how the movement should proceed. These recommendations provide concrete and practical solutions for improving charter schools by addressing some of the shortcoming that the authors have uncovered." -- Education Review, October 2002
"The greatest strength of Miron and Nelson’s volume is that . . . it provides the most comprehensive overview of how a school choice program works." -- Educational Researcher, March 2003
What’s Public About Charter Schools?offers an interesting and comprehensive study of a significant charter sector. Policy-makers looking for ideas about what to do an not do would be wise to read What’s Public About Charter Schools.” -- On-line journal, The National Charter School Clearinghouse

ISBN: 9780761945383

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 370g

256 pages