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Charter Schools : Hope or Hype? by Jack Buckley, Mark Schneider is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Charter Schools : Hope or Hype? about?

Over the past several years, privately run, publicly funded charter schools have been sold to the American public as an education alternative promising better student achievement, greater parent satisfaction, and more vibrant school communities. But are charter schools delivering on their promise? Or are they just hype as critics contend, a costly experiment that is bleeding tax dollars from public schools? In this book, Jack Buckley and Mark Schneider tackle these questions about one of the thorniest policy reforms in the nation today. Using an exceptionally rigorous research approach, the authors investigate charter schools in Washington, D.C., carefully examining school data going back more than a decade, interpreting scores of interviews with parents, students, and teachers, and meticulously measuring how charter schools perform compared to traditional public schools. Their conclusions are sobering. Buckley and Schneider show that charter-school students are not outperforming students in traditional public schools, that the quality of charter-school education varies widely from school to school, and that parent enthusiasm for charter schools starts out strong but fades over tim

Who reads Charter Schools : Hope or Hype??

Author

Jack Buckley, Mark Schneider

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400831852

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Education, Science