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Trendsetting Charter Schools

Gary J. Schmitt (ed.), Cheryl Miller (ed.)

2015

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CHAPTER 1. Charter Schools as Nation Builders Democracy Prep and Civic Education S. 13-38

„… and appointed state officials on issues facing charter schools.On one such lobby day in Albany in …” „… invariably ask the policymakers where they stand on charter schools.Also on the February agenda is the New …” „… 13CHAPTER 1Charter Schools as Nation BuildersDemocracy Prep and Civic EducationDANIEL LAUTZENHEISER …”

CHAPTER 5. Making Americans: UNO Charter Schools and Civic Education S. 109-134

„… 109CHAPTER 5Making AmericansUNO Charter Schools and Civic EducationDAVID FEITHOn a mid-September …” „… Rangel, CEO of the UNO Charter School Network, with a purposeful mix of pride and exas-peration. Pride …” „… THE UNO MISSIONThe UNO Charter School Network includes 13 schools serving some 6,500 students across …”

CHAPTER 3. Creating Capital Citizens: César Chávez Public Charter Schools for Public Policy and Civic Education S. 61-84

„… 61CHAPTER 3Creating Capital CitizensCésar Chávez Public Charter Schools for Public Policy and Civic …” „… Charter Schools for Public Policy campus on 12th Street Southeast in Washington, DC, 11 blocks east of the …” „… Washington; and the Capital City Public Charter School. No schools from the District of Columbia Public …”

Conclusion S. 157-174

„… heard from charter school educators and administrators at a diverse array of schools—including many of …” „… education. Other charters—particu-larly the achievement-oriented, “no-excuses” schools—take a differ-ent …” „… parents who may not rate citizenship among their top priorities for schools.Charter authorizers, the …”

Introduction S. 1-12

„… charter schools.ENTER CHARTER SCHOOLSCharter schools are public schools that, in exchange for greater …” „… being of good character.” Similar senti-ments were seen in the other “no-excuses” charter schools.The …” „… schools—YES Prep today ranks as one of the top charter organizations in the country.Like KIPP and other …”

Preface S. i-viii

„… 2/24/15 6:43 AMTrendsetting Charter SchoolsRaising the Bar for Civic EducationEdited by Gary J. Schmitt …” „… . paper) — ISBN 978-1-4758-1539-9 (electronic) 1. Charter schools—United States. 2. Civics—Study and …” „… Trendsetting Charter Schools14_645-Schmitt.indb i 2/24/15 6:43 AMNew Frontiers in …”

CHAPTER 4. In Service of Citizenship: YES Prep Public Schools and Civic Education S. 85-108

„… as a single independent charter school in 1998 to its current network of 10 campuses for grades six …” „… service to the community.YES Prep is often compared to another “no-excuses” network of charter schools …” „… TFA, compared to 17 percent of tradi-tional public school social studies teachers.2) Both charter …”

CHAPTER 2. Counting on Character: National Heritage Academies and Civic Education S. 39-60

„… , indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”A National Heritage Academies (NHA) charter school, Ridge Park …” „… honor examples of virtue.Like other charter schools, NHA promises parents to teach a rigor-ous …” „… Heritage Academies, a for-profit charter management com-pany, runs 74 schools in Michigan and eight other …”

Index S. 175-178

„… Campbell, David, 2, 159, 169César Chávez Public Charter Schools for Public Policy, 5–6, 8, 61–84, 160, 163 …” „… ” competition, 61–66, 83Chicago Teachers Union, 127charter schools: assimilation and national attachment, 9, 164 …” „… National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 171National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2, 36 …”

About the Contributors S. 181-182

„… Entrepreneurship Program, on the Boards of Directors of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, and …” „… Washington, D.C. He is the author of Tilting the Windmills: School Reform, San Diego, and America’s Race to …” „… Same Thing Over and Over; Education Unbound; and Common Sense School Reform. He pens the Education Week …”

CHAPTER 6. Being Part of a People: Ridgeview Classical Schools and Civic Education S. 135-156

„… charter school in Fort Collins, Colorado. The name is plural because it contains an elementary, middle …” „… students are nonwhite. Like all Colo-rado public charter schools, there are no admissions requirements, and …” „… charter schools.1The school adheres to a classical approach to education, utilizing a Socratic method of …”

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Charter School Leadership

Cameron Curry

2013

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Chapter Six: So You Want to Be a Charter School Leader! S. 63-84

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The Charter School Principal

Dana L. Bickmore (ed.), Marytza A. Gawlik (ed.)

2017

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5 Transformative Charter School Leaders S. 71-90

1 Situating the Charter School Principalship S. 1-8

4 Principal Change in an Existing Charter School S. 49-70

2 The First Principal: Perspectives on Founding a Charter School S. 9-28

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The Urban Challenge in Education

Joseph Scollo, Dona Stevens, Ellen Pomella

2014

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Part I. CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS S. 1-44

„… 10/14/14 5:21 AM3CHAPTER 1Fenton Avenue Charter SchoolLake View Terrace, CaliforniaINTRODUCTIONEighteen …” „… they could unify the school by building a charter. When holding discussions about the vision for this …” „… the case.)In 1993, Fenton became the second conversion charter, the seventh charter school in LAUSD …”

Part II Charter Middle Schools S. 45-74

„… Rodriguez met in 1998 after independently receiving charter school planning grants from the California …” „… School, the first charter middle school in Los Angeles. Dr. Rodriguez, with Dr. Elliot’s help, opened the …” „… High School) in 2003, and Lakeview Charter Academy in 2004. Believing that a cluster of charter schools …”

Part IV CHARTER SPAN SCHOOLS S. 117-180

„… of Camino Nuevo Charter Academy emerges and why this school sees itself as more than just a place to …” „… teach children reading, writing, and arithmetic.Unlike many charter schools in Los Angeles, Camino Nuevo …” „… in de-cision making as well.The seven schools within the Camino Nuevo Charter organization are …”

Part III CHARTER HIGH SCHOOLS S. 75-116

„… worked on a project involving charter schools, which led to intensive research into KIPP (Knowledge Is …” „… Power Program), a charter school operator.While still at the law firm, he wrote the grant that became …” „… Academy has garnered numerous awards including: number one performing charter school in 14_346_Scollo.indb …”

Preface S. i-xxiv

„… . : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-4758-1445-3 (electronic) 1. Charter schools—California—Los Angeles. 2 …” „… significant growth of charter schools.Part I—Charter Elementary Schools This part of the book discusses four …” „… charter schools.As you read these school portraits, you will see that each portrait has six sections …”

Index S. 187-200

„… 199 10/14/14 5:21 AM200 INDEXVCCS. See Valley Community Charter SchoolsView Park Preparatory …” „… TV, 20Aspire Public Schools, xiv; AMLA as, 15; as charter management organization, 15–16; core values …” „… California Charter School Association, 159–6014_346_Scollo.indb 188 10/14/14 5:21 AMINDEX 189 …”

Conclusion S. 181-184

„… 181ConclusionThis anthology is about seventeen Los Angeles charter schools that are making a …” „… faced myriad obstacles and challenges as they endeavored to develop and operate charter schools, yet …” „… is a certain rhythm in each of these schools—a routine that students and faculty can count on to plan …”

References S. 185-186

„… Development.Minnesota Department of Education. (2013). Charter schools. Retrieved on August 28, 2013, from …” „… 185ReferencesCenter on Educational Governance. (2013). USC/school performance …” „… .usc.edu/dept/education/cegov/products/csi-interactive/index.html City Academy High School. (n.d.). Retrieved on August 27, 2013, from …”

About the Authors S. 201-202

„… School Lead-ers program and the Charter and Autonomous School Leadership Acad-emy at California State …” „… experience as a teacher, school principal, director of curriculum and in-struction, adjunct professor …” „… by the United States Department of Education School Leadership Department. Joe holds a master of arts …”

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Rebuilding Schools for Students

Darlene Leiding

2013

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9 Charter Schools S. 103-116

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Taking Measure of Charter Schools

Julian R. Betts (ed.), Paul T. Hill (ed.)

2010

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Part I. IMPROVING RESEARCHON CHARTER SCHOOLS S. 13-152

Ch09. The State of StateCharter School Research S. 155-214

Ch01. Through a Glass Darkly: AnIntroduction to Issues in Measuringthe Quality of Charter Schools S. 1-12

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Proud to Be Different

Robert A. Fox (ed.), Nina K. Buchanan (ed.)

2014

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Chapter Eight: Ethnocentric Niche Charter Schools S. 167-184

Chapter Four: A Case Study of Hellenic Classical Charter School S. 81-102

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Education Under Siege

Arthur Shapiro

2013

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Chapter Nine: Charter Schools: A Form of Privatization S. 109-124

„… Assessment of Educational Progress,from 2003 to 2009, charters have never outperformed public schools.Nor …” „… Productive EfficiencySo far, results for charters are inferior to public schools.These studies indicate …” „… Funds for Public SchoolsThis point refers to funding being transferred to charter schools …”

Chapter Eleven: Virtual Charter Schools: Privatization on Steroids S. 141-158

„… criterion certainly is promotedby virtual charters.HOW FARE THE VIRTUAL CHARTER SCHOOLS?Not well. In …” „… ELEVENVirtual Charter Schools: Privatizationon SteroidsWhat we’re talking about here is the …” „… UniversityINTRODUCTION AND ORGANIZATIONThe virtual charter school, the most recent darling of the largely conser-vative …”

Chapter Twelve: Miracles (or Really, Mirages) for the Gullible S. 159-170

„… seem that gaming the systemis occurring?This is a miracle?HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMIES CHARTER SCHOOLS“All …” „… theory of vouchers and charters is that competition will causeachievement to go up in public schools, and …” „… program. As aresult, out of 70 charters now operating in the N.O. RSD, 5 are rated as“B” schools, 5 are …”

Chapter Ten: Vouchers: Another Form of Privatization S. 125-140

„… alternatives, includ-ing the following:• School vouchers• Charter schools• Tax-credit scholarships, in which …” „… savings accounts—parents withdraw their child from apublic district or charter school and receive a …” „… Cana-dian schools were sensitive to competition exerted by charters, theirAmerican counterparts were …”

Chapter One: No Child Left Behind (NCLB), Race to the Top (NCLB 2.0), and Their Basis—The Accountability Movement S. 1-16

„… AYP).Restructuring—This is turning a school into a charter (to be discussedin chapter 8), turning it over to public or …” „… achievement and close achievement gaps, and by expandingsupport for high-performing public charter schools …” „… schools, although no research exists to support their superiority.Chapter 9 on charters will investigate …”

Preface S. i-xiv

„… produce expected results• Online virtual charter schools—produce dreadful academic resultsand huge dropout …” „… Fiction? 939 Charter Schools: A Form of Privatization 10910 Vouchers: Another Form of Privatization 12511 …” „… Virtual Charter Schools: Privatization on Steroids 14112 Miracles (or Really, Mirages) for the Gullible …”

Chapter Eight: Privatization: Fad, Fraud, Fantasy and/or Fiction? S. 93-108

„… “virtual charter schools,”which have successfully generated large profits since they do not have tohave …” „… thatcrazy.—Arthur ShapiroAt the more than 5,500 charter schools nationwide, private manage-ment companies—some of …” „… establish acomplete, separate charter school system statewide responsible only tothe governor. This by …”

Chapter Seven: Evaluating vs. Grading (Really Rating) Schools S. 81-92

„… to privatizing schemes such as vouchers and charters, supposedly toimprove the public schools.Since …” „… QUESTIONThe attempt to improve schools by testing kids and then rating schoolshasn’t improved the schools. But …” „… SEVENEvaluating vs. Grading(Really Rating) SchoolsNo nation with successful schools ignores …”

Chapter Six: Failing Kids—Still a Failure S. 63-80

„… , so, naturally, I hung around the secondary schools.Before I could act in my first couple of months …” „… PRACTICES TO FINESSE FAILUREOrganizational/StructuralSize of SchoolsWe deal with this more fully in chapter …” „… learning communities (SLCs),also called house plans, schools-within-schools, or halls is one mod-el that …”

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Common Sense Questions about School Administration

Gerard Giordano

2015

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CHAPTER 6. DO CHARTER SCHOOLS IMPROVE PUBLIC EDUCATION? S. 67-78

„… much money.—Derek Kravitz, 2013Less than 1% of federal education dollars go to [charter schools].—“Will …” „… outperform students at traditional schools.—Scott Travis, 2013More than 86 percent of the [Florida] charter …” „… teachers were posing about charter schools.The politicians waited to see how people would respond to their …”

REFERENCES S. 127-152

„… , July 29). Tennessee directs Nashville to back charter school. Wall Street Journal. Retrieved from …” „… /story/jacksonville-man-starts-petition-change-forrest-high-school-name.———. (2013b, September 17). Vitti says he, district ready to pursue charter students. Florida …” „… Everything you need to know about charter schools. (2013, August 1). StateImpact Florida. Retrieved from …”

Preface S. i-xviii

„… 6 Do Charter Schools Improve Public Education? 67 7 What Is the Secret behind Accurate Predictions …” „… Schools 766.4 Florida Politicians Refuse to Answer Questions about Charter Schools 777.1 A Fox News …” „… ] . . . pull the trigger on schools?—Mary McConnell, 2012Should principals . . . be armed?—“Daily Poll,” 2012 …”

CHAPTER 4. CAN SCHOOL LEADERS GET SOME THINGS FOR NOTHING? S. 41-52

„… out of his schools and sending them to charter schools instead. He decided to use customer-relations …” „… parents’ attention to positive features of their schools.Principals sometimes faced truly daunting …” „… schools.Complete the table by indicating the ways in which the groups re-sponded to the principals. You can use …”

CHAPTER 2. DOES ANALYTICS BELONG IN SCHOOLS? S. 15-26

„… not comforted when they were assured that charter schools might be avail-able in neighborhoods where …” „… SchoolsEducational leaders concluded that they could save money if they cut spending on facilities. In fact, they …” „… Chicago School Board Uses Analytics to Close SchoolsGroups Response* ExplanationJournalistsParents*− Low …”

CHAPTER 3. DOES FOR-PROFIT IDEOLOGY MAKE SENSE IN PUBLIC EDUCATION? S. 27-40

„… [for the schools].—Patricia Johnson, quoted by Carr & Gilbertson, 2013Trying to make profit off the …” „… investments, including for-profit schools.ENTREPRENEURIAL PATENT LITIGATIONHundreds of thousands of people …” „… schools to close (Banchero & Maher, 2013; Hurdle, 2013).ENTREPRENEURIAL ONLINE SCHOOLSEducational …”

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Why America's Public Schools Are the Best Place for Kids

Dave F. Brown

2011

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Ch08. CHARTER SCHOOLS AND VOUCHERS S. 159-178

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The School Reform Landscape

Christopher H. Tienken, Donald C. Orlich

2013

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Chapter Eight: Charter Schools: Separate but Legal S. 117-142

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Exploring the Myths and the Realities of Today's Schools

Richard P. McAdams

2010

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Chapter 06. School Charters, Vouchers, and Privatization S. 47-56

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Entrepreneurship in the public sector

Peter Eichhorn (ed.), Dorothea Greiling (ed.), H. Ian Macdonald (ed.)

Series: Sonderheft ZÖGU

Volume 2013

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Arie Halachmi Entrepreneurial government: The case of charter schools in the USA S. 134-147

„… Arie Halachmi Entrepreneurial government: The case of charter schools in the USA charter schools …” „… Partnerships (PPP) in the form of charter schools may be a promising Public Entrepreneurial Strategy (PES) as …” „… secondary education. The use of charter schools allow governments to be more responsive to special …”

Dorothea Greiling Entrepreneurship in the public sector: Basic findings and directions for further research S. 271-285

„… (in this issue), Charter schools in the US are an innovative example of entrepreneurship of private …” „… groups of people. Charter Schools usually get a licence for 3-5 years and academic performance is closely …” „… monitored. Entrepreneurship in the case of Charter schools in the United States of America means: Stretching …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 2-4

„… incubators 117 Arie Halachmi Entrepreneurial government: The case of charter schools in …”

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