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

By Joe Nathan

Book Overview

"[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?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787902632
• ISBN13: 9780787902636
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.1" x 2.4" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

A book thatparents and educators must read!

Charter Schools may just be the secret to better public education. In a free market economy, what works better than competition? Charter schools are forcing our public schools to work, because they are showing the public that it can be done, well, with the money that we already have out there. Read this book-- and start wondering, where does your tax money really go?