Heat and Light in the Charter School Movement

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 79, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 499-505

  Nathan, Joe ^a  

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References (32)

1. Bill Clinton, "Opening and Closing Remarks by the President in Roundtable Discussion on Charter Schools, 20 September 1997," White House Press Office.
2. Paul Wellstone, "Remarks Delivered at the Minnesota State Legislature," 17 February 1997.
3. See Ray Budde, "The Evolution of the Charter Concept," Phi Delta Kappan, September 1996, pp. 72-73.
4. See Albert Shanker, "A Charter for Change," advertorial, New York Times, 10 July 1988, sec. 4, p. 7.
5. Senn Brown, America Online chat, 30 November 1997, archived in the AOL Charter area.
6. Stella Cheung and Joe Nathan, Making a Difference: Charter Schools and Student Performance (Minneapolis: Center for School Change, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, 1998).
7. Comments by editorial page writers at a conference convened by the Hechinger Institute, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, N.Y., November 1997.
8. Alex Medler and Joe Nathan, Charter Schools: What Are They Up To? (Denver: Education Commission of the States; and Minneapolis: Center for School Change, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, 1995).
9. Thomas Hoerr, presentation to Charter Schools Workshop, University of California, Berkeley, August 1997.
10. Timothy Sindelar, "Statement to the Committee on Education and the Workforce," United States House of Representatives, 9 April 1997.
11. Cheryl M. Lange, Charter Schools and Special Education: A Handbook (Alexandria, Va.: National Association of State Directors of Special Education, 6 May 1997).
12. Joseph R. McKinney, "Charter Schools: A New Barrier for Children with Disabilities," Educational Leadership, October 1996, pp. 22-25.
13. Lauri Steel and Roger Levine, Educational Innovation in Multiracial Contexts: The Growth of Magnet Schools in American Education (Palo Alto, Calif.: American Institutes for Research, 1994).
14. Jonathan Kozol, Free Schools (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972).
15. Stella Cheung and Joe Nathan, Governance in Charters: A Preliminary Report (Minneapolis: Center for School Change, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, 1998).
16. The best Web sites include America Online's designated area (keyword: Charter); a remarkable area set up by Jude Hollins, a graduate student at Syracuse University (csr.syr.edu); and the U.S. government's site, www.uscharterschools.org.
17. Minnesota Charter Schools Evaluation, Interim Report, December 1996 (Minneapolis: Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement, University of Minnesota, 1996).
18. Ted Kolderie, The States Will Have to Withdraw the Exclusive (St. Paul: Institute for Policy Studies, 1990).
19. Louann A. Bierlein, Charter Schools: Initial Findings (Denver: Education Commission of the States, February 1996), p. 1.
20. Mike Rose, "A Good Charter Law," American Teacher, October 1996, p. 9.
21. Carol Ascher, "Performance Contracting: A Forgotten Experiment in School Privatization," Phi Delta Kappan, May 1996, pp. 615-21.
22. Bruce Fuller, Who Gains, Who Loses from School Choice: A Research Summary (Denver: National Conference of State Legislators, 1995), pp. 1-2.
23. See, for example, Mary Anne Raywid, The Case for Public Schools of Choice (Bloomington, Ind.: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, Fastback No. 283, 1989).
24. John F. Witte, "The Politics of Private School Choice in America," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, April 1996, NewYork, N.Y.
25. Priscilla Wohlstetter and Noelle C. Griffin, First Lessons: Charter Schools as Learning Communities (Philadelphia: Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, September 1997).
26. Priscilla Wohlstetter and Noelle C. Griffin, "Creating and Sustaining Learning Communities: Early Lessons from Charter Schools," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, March 1997, Chicago.
27. Amy Stuart Wells, Time to Choose: America at the Crossroads of School Choice Policy (New York: Hill and Wang, 1993).
28. Amy Stuart Wells, Cynthia Grutzik, and Sibyll Carnochan, "Underlying Policy Assumptions of Charter School Reform: The Multiple Meanings of a Movement," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, April 1996, New York, N.Y., p. 16.
29. Ibid., p. 3.
30. Debra DeLee, letter to U.S. Sen. David Durenberger from the National Education Association, Washington, D.C., 16 January 1992.
31. David Snead, presentation on charter schools delivered at a conference at Wayne State University, Detroit, 5 October 1994.
32. Conversation with the author, 22 December 1997.