Charter schools-another top-down innovation

Educational Researcher

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 34-36

  Garcia, George F ^a   Garcia, Mary ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002425843     PISSN: 0013189X     EISSN: 1935102X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0013189X025008034     Document Type: Note

References (21)

1. American Federation of Teachers (1996). Charter schools: Do they measure up?. Washington, DC: Author.
2. Ball, C (March 29, 1996). Focus on productivity to improve America's schools. Christian Science Monitor, A19.
3. Berliner, D, and B Biddle (1995). The manufactured crisis: Myth, fraud and the attack on America's schools. New York: Addison-Wesley.
4. Boyer, E (1992). School choice. Princeton, NJ: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
5. Brandos, D, and G Robinson (1992). Perceptions about American education: Are they based on facts?. Arlington, VA: Educational Research Services.
6. Corwin, R, and J Flaherty (1995). Freedom and innovation in California's charter schools. Los Alamitos, CA: Southwest Regional Laboratory.
7. Darling-Hammond, L, and AL Goodwin (1992). Progress toward professionalism in teaching. In G Gawalti (Ed.), Challenges and achievements of American education: 1993 yearbook of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (pp. 19-52). Washington, DC: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
8. DeSpain, B, and M Livingston (July, 1996). Roads to reform. In The American School Board Journal, Vol. 183(7) (pp. 17-20). Alexandria, VA: National School Boards Association.
9. Fullan, M (1993). Change forces. London: The Falmer Press.
10. Grutzik, C, P Bernal, D Hershberg, and A Wells (April, 1995). Resources and access in California charter schools: A preliminary overview. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco.
11. Hill, PT (June, 1996). The educational consequences of choice. Phi Delta Kappan, 77(10), 671-675.
12. Malen, B, RT Ogawa, and J Kranz (1990). What do we know about school-based management? A case study of the literature-A call for research. In WH Cliene and JE Witte (Eds.), Choice and central in American education: The practice of choice, decentralization and school restructuring, Vol, 2 (pp. 289-342). London: The Falmer Press.
13. McGree, K (July, 1995). Charter schools: Early learnings. Insights on educational policy and practices. No. 5. Policy brief. Austin, TX: Southwest Educational Development and Laboratory.
14. Mulholland, I, and M Amsler (1992). The search for choice in public education: The emergency of charter. San Francisco: Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development.
15. Robinson, G (1992). School administration under attack: What are the facts?. Arlington, VA: Educational Research Services.
16. Saulter, RC (1996). Policy briefs: Charter schools, a new breed of public schools. Chicago: NCREL.
17. Smith, KB, and K Meier (December, 1995). School choice-Panacea or Pandora's Box? Phi Delta Kappan, 77(4), 312-316.
18. Stuart, E (April, 1994). Chartering a new course. State Government News, 37(4), 8-11.
19. U.S. General Accounting Office (1995). Charter schools: New models for public schools provide opportunities and challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
20. Wilson, J (1989). Bureaucracy. New York: Basic Books, Inc.
21. Yamashiro, K, and L Carlos (1996). More on charter schools. Charter schools policy brief. San Francisco, CA: Far West Laboratory of Educational Research and Development.