Possibilities, problems, and progress: Early lessons from the charter movement

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 18-23

  Nathan, Joe ^a  

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References (23)

1. Janet Fender, quoted in Sandy Dennison, "Charters Charm Frustrated Teacher," Wilmington Sunday News Journal, 19 November 1995, p. 1-B.
2. Ray Budde, Education by Charter (Andover, Mass.: Regional Laboratory for Educational Improvement of the Northeast & Islands, 1988).
3. See, for example, Albert Shanker, "A Charter for Change," New York Times, 10 July 1988, sec. 4, p. 7;
4. and Albert Shanker, idem, "Charter Schools: Option for the Other 80 Percent," School Administrator, November 1988, p. 72.
5. See Joe Nathan and James Ysseldyke, "What Minnesota Has Learned About School Choice," Phi Delta Kappan, May 1994, pp. 682-88.
6. Program Evaluation Division, Postsecondary Enrollment Options Program (St. Paul: Office of the Legislative Auditor, 1996).
7. Shanker, "A Charter for Change."
8. Ember Reichgott Junge, "Charter Schools Will Work Better Than Private School Vouchers," Minneapolis Star Tribune, 23 January 1996, p. A-11.
9. Bill Clinton, "State of the Union," 23 January 1996;
10. see also "Remarks by the President Aboard Air Force One," 22 September 1995, mimeographed.
11. Ted Kolderie, "The States Will Have to Withdraw the Exclusive," Center for Policy Studies, 59 W. 4th St., St. Paul, MN 55102, 1990.
12. Ted Kolderie, "The States Will Have to Withdraw the Exclusive," Ibid., p. 14.
13. Alex Medler and Joe Nathan, Charter Schools: What Are They Up To ? (Denver: Education Commission of the States; Minneapolis: Center for School Change, University of Minnesota, 1995).
14. Chester E. Finn, Jr., Louann Bierlein, and Bruno V. Manno, Charter Schools in Action: A First Look (Washington, D.C.: Hudson Institute, 1996), p. 2.
15. Joe Nathan, "At Charter Schools, Parents Feel Needed," St. Paul Pioneer Press, 21 March 1995, p. 1-C.
16. Medler and Nathan, St. Paul Pioneer Press op. cit.
17. Finn, Bierlein, and Manno, p. 5.
18. Louann Bierlein, Charter Schools: Initial Findings (Denver: Education Commission of the States, 1996).
19. Medler and Nathan, Charter Schools: Initial Findings op. cit.
20. Bruce Fuller, Who Gains, Who Loses from School Choice: A Research Summary (Denver: National Conference of State Legislators, 1995), pp. 1-2.
21. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (New York: Random House, 1952), p. 3.
22. Mary Anne Raywid, The Case of Public Schools of Choice (Bloomington, Ind.: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, Fastback No. 283, 1989).
23. Roseanne Wood, "SAIL, A Pioneer for Schools of Choice in Florida," in Joe Nathan, ed., Public Schools by Choice (Minneapolis: Free Spirit Press, 1989), p. 202.