What's Public About Charter Schools?
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"What's Public About Charter Schools? by Gary Miron and Christopher Nelson deserves to be cited repeatedly as the debate about charter schools continues. The researchers' careful and balanced analysis of the situation in Michigan has much to say about the charter school movement across the country and leads to important cautions about whether and how the movement should proceed. These recommendations provide concrete and practical solutions for improving charter schools by addressing some of the shortcoming that the authors have uncovered."
—Education Review, October 2002
"What's Public About Charter Schools? provides valuable insights for charter school operators and advocates, school administrators, community members, politicians, and policy makers looking for data upon which to base decision making. Miron and Nelson have lived school reform evaluation for years, and their experience shows in this thoughtful and useful book."
Kyle L. Peck, Charter School Founder and Professor of Education
Pennsylvania State University
"This is the most comprehensive book that I have seen on charter schools. Both the descriptive data and the analysis are an important contribution."
Henry M. Levin, Director
National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education
Teachers College, Columbia University
"Miron and Nelson make a significant contribution to the debate about school restructuring reforms provide a strikingly balanced look at the charter school movement in action. Their conclusions and recommendations offer important lessons to school reformers, researchers, and policymakers both in the United States and internationally."
Priscilla Wohlstetter, Director
Center on Educational Governance
Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California
"This book covers essential material and will be of interest for classes on education policy and educational administration and will command an audience among school reformers and policy analysts."
William L. Boyd, Distinguished Professor of Education
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
How much do we really know about the quality of education in charter schools?
Here are the documented answers to the questions we all have about student achievement, choice, innovation, and accountability:
- How do students in charter schools perform compared to students in public, non-charter schools?
- Have charter schools succeeded as "laboratories" of educational innovation?
- How do the costs of charter schools compare with non-charter schools?
- What types of professional development enhancements and teaching environments do charter schools provide for their teachers?
- What effect has privatization had on charter school students and operations?
Esteemed charter school researchers, Gary Miron and Christopher Nelson, have carefully examined a wealth of evidence about charter schools and boiled down the results in this insightful, accessible work. Policymakers, researchers, school administrators, parents, and others interested in school reform will find valuable information about school choice, privatization, and new forms of holding schools accountable—vital data on evaluating this new private/public hybrid and its success at serving the core purpose of public education.
Contents
Preface
- Outline of the Book
- Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Authors
Chapter 1: Charter Schools and Privatization
- What Are Chater Schools? A Crash Course in the Charter Concept
- Accountability to Whom? The New Politics of Education
- What's Public About Charter Schools?
- Formalist and Functionalist Views of Public-ness
Chapter 2: Shifting From Public to Private: Historical and Political Backdrop
- Charter Schools in the National and International Context
- The Public-Private Pendulum in Michigan
- The Emergence of Michigan's Charter School Law
Chapter 3: The Charter School Reform in Michigan
- The Charter School Concept in Michigan
- The Growth and Development of Michigan Charter Schools
Chapter 4: Charter School Finance
- How Michigan Funds Charter Schools
- General Fund Expenditures
- Case Studies of Charter School and School District Revenues and Expenditures
- The Cost Advantage of Charter Schools
Chapter 5: Choice and Access
- Distribution by Grade
- Racial/Ethnic Composition of the Charter Schools
- Income, Family Structure, and Other Characteristics
- Special Education--or the Lack of It--in Michigan Charter Schools
- Beyond Demographics: Reasons for Choosing Charter Schools
Chapter 6: Teachers' Characteristics and Working Conditions
- Teacher Demographics
- Certification and Qualification of Teachers
- Reasons to Seek Employment at a Charter School
- Working Conditions and Levels of Satisfaction
Chapter 7: Innovation and Impact
- Impact on Surrounding School Districts
- Impacts on Educational Practice
- The Diffusion of Charter School Innovations and Practices
Chapter 8: Student Achievement
- Michigan in National Context
- Assessing Charter School Impacts in Michigan
- A Summary of the Findings
- EMOs and Student Achievement
Chapter 9: Customer Satisfaction
- Nontest Indicators of Academic Performance
- Satisfaction With and Accomplishment of Mission
- Satisfaction With Curriculum and Instruction
- Satisfaction With Facilities and Available Resources
- The Relationship Between Market and Performance Accountability
Chapter 10: The Effects of Education Management Organizations
- The Growth of EMO Involvement in Charter Schools
- Roles and Types of EMOs
- Ownership of Charter Schools and the Problem of Bundling
- Control and Governance of Charter Schools: Is the Tail Wagging the Dog?
- Operating Charter Schools for Profit: Strategies and Consequences
Chapter 11: Lessons in Choice and Accountability
- What's Public About Michigan Charter Schools? A Review of the Evidence
- Are Charter Schools a Good Public Investment? The Question of Efficiency
- Diagnoses and Prescriptions for Charter School Laws
- The Future of Choice and Accountability
Appendix A: Key Historical Developments in Michigan That Have Affected the Public and Private Nature of Schooling
Appendix A: Key Historical Developments in Michigan That Have Affected the Public and Private Nature of Schooling
Appendix B: Background and Supporting Documentation for Analysis of Student Achievement
Appendix B: Background and Supporting Documentation for Analysis of Student Achievement
Appendix C: List of EMOs and the Number of Schools They Operated in 2000-01
Appendix C: List of EMOs and the Number of Schools They Operated in 2000-01
References
References
Index
Index
Additional materials
Description
"What's Public About Charter Schools? by Gary Miron and Christopher Nelson deserves to be cited repeatedly as the debate about charter schools continues. The researchers' careful and balanced analysis of the situation in Michigan has much to say about the charter school movement across the country and leads to important cautions about whether and how the movement should proceed. These recommendations provide concrete and practical solutions for improving charter schools by addressing some of the shortcoming that the authors have uncovered."
—Education Review, October 2002
"What's Public About Charter Schools? provides valuable insights for charter school operators and advocates, school administrators, community members, politicians, and policy makers looking for data upon which to base decision making. Miron and Nelson have lived school reform evaluation for years, and their experience shows in this thoughtful and useful book."
Kyle L. Peck, Charter School Founder and Professor of Education
Pennsylvania State University
"This is the most comprehensive book that I have seen on charter schools. Both the descriptive data and the analysis are an important contribution."
Henry M. Levin, Director
National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education
Teachers College, Columbia University
"Miron and Nelson make a significant contribution to the debate about school restructuring reforms provide a strikingly balanced look at the charter school movement in action. Their conclusions and recommendations offer important lessons to school reformers, researchers, and policymakers both in the United States and internationally."
Priscilla Wohlstetter, Director
Center on Educational Governance
Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California
"This book covers essential material and will be of interest for classes on education policy and educational administration and will command an audience among school reformers and policy analysts."
William L. Boyd, Distinguished Professor of Education
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
How much do we really know about the quality of education in charter schools?
Here are the documented answers to the questions we all have about student achievement, choice, innovation, and accountability:
- How do students in charter schools perform compared to students in public, non-charter schools?
- Have charter schools succeeded as "laboratories" of educational innovation?
- How do the costs of charter schools compare with non-charter schools?
- What types of professional development enhancements and teaching environments do charter schools provide for their teachers?
- What effect has privatization had on charter school students and operations?
Esteemed charter school researchers, Gary Miron and Christopher Nelson, have carefully examined a wealth of evidence about charter schools and boiled down the results in this insightful, accessible work. Policymakers, researchers, school administrators, parents, and others interested in school reform will find valuable information about school choice, privatization, and new forms of holding schools accountable—vital data on evaluating this new private/public hybrid and its success at serving the core purpose of public education.
Contents
Preface
- Outline of the Book
- Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Authors
Chapter 1: Charter Schools and Privatization
- What Are Chater Schools? A Crash Course in the Charter Concept
- Accountability to Whom? The New Politics of Education
- What's Public About Charter Schools?
- Formalist and Functionalist Views of Public-ness
Chapter 2: Shifting From Public to Private: Historical and Political Backdrop
- Charter Schools in the National and International Context
- The Public-Private Pendulum in Michigan
- The Emergence of Michigan's Charter School Law
Chapter 3: The Charter School Reform in Michigan
- The Charter School Concept in Michigan
- The Growth and Development of Michigan Charter Schools
Chapter 4: Charter School Finance
- How Michigan Funds Charter Schools
- General Fund Expenditures
- Case Studies of Charter School and School District Revenues and Expenditures
- The Cost Advantage of Charter Schools
Chapter 5: Choice and Access
- Distribution by Grade
- Racial/Ethnic Composition of the Charter Schools
- Income, Family Structure, and Other Characteristics
- Special Education--or the Lack of It--in Michigan Charter Schools
- Beyond Demographics: Reasons for Choosing Charter Schools
Chapter 6: Teachers' Characteristics and Working Conditions
- Teacher Demographics
- Certification and Qualification of Teachers
- Reasons to Seek Employment at a Charter School
- Working Conditions and Levels of Satisfaction
Chapter 7: Innovation and Impact
- Impact on Surrounding School Districts
- Impacts on Educational Practice
- The Diffusion of Charter School Innovations and Practices
Chapter 8: Student Achievement
- Michigan in National Context
- Assessing Charter School Impacts in Michigan
- A Summary of the Findings
- EMOs and Student Achievement
Chapter 9: Customer Satisfaction
- Nontest Indicators of Academic Performance
- Satisfaction With and Accomplishment of Mission
- Satisfaction With Curriculum and Instruction
- Satisfaction With Facilities and Available Resources
- The Relationship Between Market and Performance Accountability
Chapter 10: The Effects of Education Management Organizations
- The Growth of EMO Involvement in Charter Schools
- Roles and Types of EMOs
- Ownership of Charter Schools and the Problem of Bundling
- Control and Governance of Charter Schools: Is the Tail Wagging the Dog?
- Operating Charter Schools for Profit: Strategies and Consequences
Chapter 11: Lessons in Choice and Accountability
- What's Public About Michigan Charter Schools? A Review of the Evidence
- Are Charter Schools a Good Public Investment? The Question of Efficiency
- Diagnoses and Prescriptions for Charter School Laws
- The Future of Choice and Accountability
Appendix A: Key Historical Developments in Michigan That Have Affected the Public and Private Nature of Schooling
Appendix A: Key Historical Developments in Michigan That Have Affected the Public and Private Nature of Schooling
Appendix B: Background and Supporting Documentation for Analysis of Student Achievement
Appendix B: Background and Supporting Documentation for Analysis of Student Achievement
Appendix C: List of EMOs and the Number of Schools They Operated in 2000-01
Appendix C: List of EMOs and the Number of Schools They Operated in 2000-01
References
References
Index
Index
Additional materials
Reviews
What's Public About Charter Schools?
Lessons Learned About Choice and Accountability
March 2002 | 256 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 27/02/2023 | 9780761945376 | $88.95 |
| Paperback | 27/02/2023 | 9780761945383 | $40.95 |
"What's Public About Charter Schools? by Gary Miron and Christopher Nelson deserves to be cited repeatedly as the debate about charter schools continues. The researchers' careful and balanced analysis of the situation in Michigan has much to say about the charter school movement across the country and leads to important cautions about whether and how the movement should proceed. These recommendations provide concrete and practical solutions for improving charter schools by addressing some of the shortcoming that the authors have uncovered."
—Education Review, October 2002
"What's Public About Charter Schools? provides valuable insights for charter school operators and advocates, school administrators, community members, politicians, and policy makers looking for data upon which to base decision making. Miron and Nelson have lived school reform evaluation for years, and their experience shows in this thoughtful and useful book."
Kyle L. Peck, Charter School Founder and Professor of Education
Pennsylvania State University
"This is the most comprehensive book that I have seen on charter schools. Both the descriptive data and the analysis are an important contribution."
Henry M. Levin, Director
National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education
Teachers College, Columbia University
"Miron and Nelson make a significant contribution to the debate about school restructuring reforms provide a strikingly balanced look at the charter school movement in action. Their conclusions and recommendations offer important lessons to school reformers, researchers, and policymakers both in the United States and internationally."
Priscilla Wohlstetter, Director
Center on Educational Governance
Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California
"This book covers essential material and will be of interest for classes on education policy and educational administration and will command an audience among school reformers and policy analysts."
William L. Boyd, Distinguished Professor of Education
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
How much do we really know about the quality of education in charter schools?
Here are the documented answers to the questions we all have about student achievement, choice, innovation, and accountability:
- How do students in charter schools perform compared to students in public, non-charter schools?
- Have charter schools succeeded as "laboratories" of educational innovation?
- How do the costs of charter schools compare with non-charter schools?
- What types of professional development enhancements and teaching environments do charter schools provide for their teachers?
- What effect has privatization had on charter school students and operations?
Esteemed charter school researchers, Gary Miron and Christopher Nelson, have carefully examined a wealth of evidence about charter schools and boiled down the results in this insightful, accessible work. Policymakers, researchers, school administrators, parents, and others interested in school reform will find valuable information about school choice, privatization, and new forms of holding schools accountable—vital data on evaluating this new private/public hybrid and its success at serving the core purpose of public education.
Table Of Contents:
- Preface
- Outline of the Book
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Chapter 1: Charter Schools and Privatization
- What Are Chater Schools? A Crash Course in the Charter Concept
- Accountability to Whom? The New Politics of Education
- What's Public About Charter Schools?
- Formalist and Functionalist Views of Public-ness
- Chapter 2: Shifting From Public to Private: Historical and Political Backdrop
- Charter Schools in the National and International Context
- The Public-Private Pendulum in Michigan
- The Emergence of Michigan's Charter School Law
- Chapter 3: The Charter School Reform in Michigan
- The Charter School Concept in Michigan
- The Growth and Development of Michigan Charter Schools
- Chapter 4: Charter School Finance
- How Michigan Funds Charter Schools
- General Fund Expenditures
- Case Studies of Charter School and School District Revenues and Expenditures
- The Cost Advantage of Charter Schools
- Chapter 5: Choice and Access
- Distribution by Grade
- Racial/Ethnic Composition of the Charter Schools
- Income, Family Structure, and Other Characteristics
- Special Education--or the Lack of It--in Michigan Charter Schools
- Beyond Demographics: Reasons for Choosing Charter Schools
- Chapter 6: Teachers' Characteristics and Working Conditions
- Teacher Demographics
- Certification and Qualification of Teachers
- Reasons to Seek Employment at a Charter School
- Working Conditions and Levels of Satisfaction
- Chapter 7: Innovation and Impact
- Impact on Surrounding School Districts
- Impacts on Educational Practice
- The Diffusion of Charter School Innovations and Practices
- Chapter 8: Student Achievement
- Michigan in National Context
- Assessing Charter School Impacts in Michigan
- A Summary of the Findings
- EMOs and Student Achievement
- Chapter 9: Customer Satisfaction
- Nontest Indicators of Academic Performance
- Satisfaction With and Accomplishment of Mission
- Satisfaction With Curriculum and Instruction
- Satisfaction With Facilities and Available Resources
- The Relationship Between Market and Performance Accountability
- Chapter 10: The Effects of Education Management Organizations
- The Growth of EMO Involvement in Charter Schools
- Roles and Types of EMOs
- Ownership of Charter Schools and the Problem of Bundling
- Control and Governance of Charter Schools: Is the Tail Wagging the Dog?
- Operating Charter Schools for Profit: Strategies and Consequences
- Chapter 11: Lessons in Choice and Accountability
- What's Public About Michigan Charter Schools? A Review of the Evidence
- Are Charter Schools a Good Public Investment? The Question of Efficiency
- Diagnoses and Prescriptions for Charter School Laws
- The Future of Choice and Accountability
- Appendix A: Key Historical Developments in Michigan That Have Affected the Public and Private Nature of Schooling
- Appendix B: Background and Supporting Documentation for Analysis of Student Achievement
- Appendix C: List of EMOs and the Number of Schools They Operated in 2000-01
- References
- Index