| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 243 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Palgrave studies in urban education |
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Palgrave studies in urban education.
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| Contents |
Charter Schools in the Reform Imagination -- The Landscape of Charter School Reform -- State Level Policy Dynamics -- Policy Implementation at the School Level -- Policy Dynamics Part I: Policy Contexts, School Foundings, and School Conflict -- Policy Dynamics Part II: Schools and Shifts in Accountability Policies -- Looking Nationally at Policy Talk Versus Policy Implementation |
| Summary |
This book begins with the claims of policymakers and explores charter schools at each stage of the policymaking process, from legislation to implementation. Powers carefully and thoroughly examines how features of schools' policy contexts shape the ways that charter school reform unfolds at schools, providing a nuanced portrait of the schools participating in this much discussed and little understood reform movement. While policymakers are often prone to making sweeping claims about the efficacy of charter schools, in practice charter school reform is much more complex. By drawing on an extensive and compelling range of data, Powers assesses the validity of policymakers' claims |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-236) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Charter schools -- United States
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EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
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EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
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Charter schools
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008050341 |
| ISBN |
9780230622111 |
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0230622119 |
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023060627X |
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9780230606272 |
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1282532561 |
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9781282532564 |
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9786612532566 |
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6612532564 |
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