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1 online resource (286 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; List of Acronyms; 1 Real World School Choice: Arizona Charter Schools; Part One Theoretical and National Perspectives; 2 And This Parent Went to Market: Education as Public Versus Private Good; 3 The Death of One Best Way: Charter Schools as Reinventing Government; 4 Congress and Charter Schools; 5 Charter Schools: A National Innovation, an Arizona Revolution; Part Two Social Scientists Look at Arizona Charter Schools |
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6 The Wild West of Education Reform: Arizona Charter Schools7 Why Arizona Embarked on School Reform (and Nevada Did Not); 8 Do Charter Schools Improve District Schools? Three Approaches to the Question; 9 Closing Charters: How a Good Theory Failed in Practice; 10 Nothing New: Curricula in Arizona Charter Schools; 11 How Arizona Teachers View School Reform; Part Three Practitioners Look at Arizona Charter Schools; 12 The Empowerment of Market-Based School Reform; 13 A Voice from the State Legislature: Don't Do What Arizona Did! |
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14 Public Schools and the Charter Movement: An Emerging Relationship15 Whose Idea Was This Anyway? The Challenging Metamorphosis from Private to Charter; Part Four Lessons; 16 In Lieu of Conclusions: Tentative Lessons from a Contested Frontier; About the Editors and Contributors; Index |
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Print version record |
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Charter schools -- Arizona
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School choice -- Arizona
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Charter schools
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School choice
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Arizona
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gresham, April
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Hess, Frederick
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Milliman, Scott
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| ISBN |
9780429977077 |
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0429977077 |
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