LEADER 04003nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910454839503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-03742-1 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674037427 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786751 035 $a(EBL)3300412 035 $a(OCoLC)923111182 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000179757 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11178125 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000179757 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10139388 035 $a(PQKB)10356371 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300412 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300412 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10318405 035 $a(DE-B1597)574372 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674037427 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786751 100 $a20000620d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aInside charter schools$b[electronic resource] $ethe paradox of radical decentralization /$fedited by Bruce Fuller 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d2000 215 $a1 online resource (304 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-674-00325-X 311 $a0-674-00823-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Growing Charter Schools, Decentering the State: BRUCE FULLER; 1 The Public Square, Big or Small? Charter Schools in Political Context: BRUCE FULLER; 2 We Hold on to Our Kids, We Hold on Tight: Tandem Charters in Michigan: PATTY YANCEY; 3 An Empowering Spirit Is Not Enough: A Latino Charter School Struggles over Leadership: EDWARD WEXLER AND LUIS A. HUERTA; 4 Selling Air: New England Parents Spark a New Revolution: KATE ZERNIKE; 5 Diversity and Inequality: Montera Charter High School: AMY STUART WELLS, JENNIFER JELLISON HOLME, AND ASH VASUDEVA 327 $a6 Losing Public Accountability: A Home Schooling Charter: LUIS A. HUERTA7 Teachers as Communitarians: A Charter School Cooperative in Minnesota: ERIC ROFES; 8 Breaking Away or Pulling Together? Making Decentralization Work: BRUCE FULLER; Notes; Contributors; Index 330 $aDeepening disaffection with conventional public schools has inspired flight to private schools, home schooling, and new alternatives, such as charter schools. Barely a decade old, the charter school movement has attracted a colorful band of supporters, from presidential candidates, to ethnic activists, to the religious Right. At present there are about 1,700 charter schools, with total enrollment estimated to reach one million early in the century. Yet, until now, little has been known about the inner workings of these small, inventive schools that rely on public money but are largely independent of local school boards. Inside Charter Schools takes readers into six strikingly different schools, from an evangelical home-schooling charter in California to a back-to-basics charter in a black neighborhood in Lansing, Michigan. With a keen eye for human aspirations and dilemmas, the authors provide incisive analysis of the challenges and problems facing this young movement. Do charter schools really spur innovation, or do they simply exacerbate tribal forms of American pluralism? Inside Charter Schools provides shrewd and illuminating studies of the struggles and achievements of these new schools, and offers practical lessons for educators, scholars, policymakers, and parents. 606 $aCharter schools$zUnited States 606 $aSchools$xDecentralization$zUnited States 606 $aEducation and state$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCharter schools 615 0$aSchools$xDecentralization 615 0$aEducation and state 676 $a371.01 701 $aFuller$b Bruce$0890843 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454839503321 996 $aInside charter schools$92032831 997 $aUNINA