School Choice Hoax - Fixing America''s Schools

Informationen zum Autor Ronald G. Corwin is professor emeritus of sociology at The Ohio State University. He also served as director of basic research in the U.S. Department of Education, vice president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and various elected positions in the American Sociological Research Association. Author or co-author of 15 books and two dozen contributed chapters, he also edited a series of books on educational research. His work has appeared in the American Sociological Review and other sociological journals, including Sociology of Education for which he served as an associate editor. Klappentext The federal government is devoting millions of dollars to charter and voucher programs that currently require parents to abandon regular public schools. The School Choice Hoax: Fixing America's Schools exposes the misleading hyperbole that has been driving the school choice movement and shows how charter schools can become more effective and useful to public school districts. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 The School Choice Quagmire: Anomalies within the Movement and the Models 2 Claims for Charter Schools and School Vouchers: An Assessment 3 How to Improve Charter Schools: Clues from Open Enrollment, School-Based Management, The Coalition of Essential Schools, and Small School Initiatives 4 Why Choice Schools Should Be Specialized: Charter Schools and Vouchers Schools within a Planned Division of Labor 5 Plight of the Poor and Minority Student in an Uncaring Society: Using District-Operated Charter Schools to Improve Poverty Schools 6 Conclusions

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• Authors: Ronald G. Corwin, Ronald G. Schneider Corwin, Ronald G./ Schneider E. Joseph/ McPartland Corwin, Corwin Ronald G., E. Joseph Schneider, Joseph E. Schneider, Schneider Joseph E.
• Assisted by: James Mcpartland (Foreword)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.06.2007
• EAN: 9781578865864
• ISBN: 978-1-57886-586-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; USA, EDUCATION / Administration / General, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, United States of America, USA, Schools, Schools and pre-schools, EDUCATION / Schools / General