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This is a book about ethnocentric niche charter schools. What are they? When did they first appear? From where did the term come? How do they differ from regular charter schools and from district-run traditional public schools? All of these questions and more will be answered in this book.
List of contents
Introduction
The Growth of Ethnocentric Charter Schools
Robert A. Fox and Nina K. Buchanan
Chapter One
Kua O Ka L¿: A Hawaiian Culturally-Focused Charter School
Nina K. Buchanan, Robert A. Fox,
Susan L. Osborne and C. Puanani Wilhelm
Chapter Two
Restoring Native American Culture and Language through Public Education
Mark Blitz
Chapter Three
A Model for Educating African-American Students
Tanikiaa Orange and Sharroky Hollie
Chapter Four
A Case Study of Helenic Classical Charter School
Charisse Gulosino
Chapter Five
Immigrant Advantage: What Makes Does Science Academy Fly?
Robert Maranto, Kaan Camuz and John Franklin
Chapter Six
A Somali School in Minneapolis
Letitia E. Basford and Heather Megarry Traeger
Chapter Seven
A New Approach to Educating Latino English Language Learners
Brenda Martinez and Mark Blitz
Chapter Eight
Ethnocentric Niche Charter Schools: A View Through Legal and Policy Lenses
Suzanne E. Eckes and Kari A. M. Carr
About the author
Robert Fox, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Hawaii, is Chair of the American Education Research Association's School Choice Special Interest Group, a Consulting Editor of the Journal of School Choice and co-Chairs the International Research Conference on School Choice and Reform which takes place every January in Florida.
Nina Buchanan, an educational psychologist, is a Professor Emerita from the University of Hawaii. She has taught in grades kindergarten through graduate school students and is a founder of the West Hawaii Explorations Academy Public Charter School, a distinguished award-winning grades 6 - 12 school situated in the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii. She is a nationally recognized expert who has published articles on school choice, project-based learning and gifted and talented education.
Summary
This is a book about ethnocentric niche charter schools. What are they? When did they first appear? From where did the term come? How do they differ from regular charter schools and from district-run traditional public schools? All of these questions and more will be answered in this book.
