Charter Schools: eBooks

Cameron Curry has created a user-friendly guide to help emerging or seasoned school leaders focus on five key elements for school success.

A timely work that examines this unusual experiment and the controversies that surround public choice and charter schools as a means of educational reform.

This book examines charter schools in eight states with varied policy contexts. It assesses the characteristics of charter schools' students, their effectiveness in raising student achievement and promoting graduation and college entry, and their competitive effects on student achievement in traditional public schools.

Strategies for making the schools we need that work for all kids. Eva Moskowitz (the founder and CEO of the Success Charter Network in Harlem) and Arin Lavinia offer practical, classroom-tested ideas for dramatically improving teaching and learning.

This is a book about ethnocentric niche charter schools. Each chapter contains a description of the school told by people who actually taught or learned or sent their children there.

The first part of this book focuses on how to improve estimates of charter schools' performance, especially their benefits to students who attend them; the second part suggests how policymakers can learn more about charter schools and make better use of evidence. The editors and authors suggest ways states and localities can improve the quality of data on which charter school studies are based and trace some of the ways charter school research influences policy.

The Urban School System of the Future explains how we can finally turn the tide and create dynamic, responsive, high-performing, self-improving urban school systems that fulfill the promise of public education.