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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| An Introduction to the Landscape of Charter Reform | |
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| The Rise of the Charter School Movement | |
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| Charter Schools, Public Education, and the Front Line of a Contested Political Terrain | |
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| Charters in the History of Educational Choice | |
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| What Is at Stake? | |
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| The Structure of the Book | |
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| The Promise: The Genesis of Expectation and the Challenge of Charter Reform | |
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| The Luster and Contribution of Exemplar Charter Schools | |
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| A History of Charters in Three Movements | |
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| The Policy Landscape: Commitments and Variation | |
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| The Charter Landscape | |
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| Policy Dimensions: Are Charter Schools Public Institutions? | |
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| Charters, the Marketplace, and a Theory of Change | |
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| The Appeal of Charters to Dominant Economic Interests: Monetizing Public Education | |
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| The Question of Money and Corruption | |
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| Scaling up Reform Through a Network of Charters: The Tradeoffs of Efficiency-and Economic Advantage | |
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| Parents' Search for Alternatives to a System That Has Disinvested | |
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| The Tension Between Promise and Evidence | |
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| The Promise-Evidence Gap | |
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| Charters and the Promise of Equity | |
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| Charter School Dropouts, Pushouts, and Graduation Rates: Why Do We Know So Little? | |
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| The Effect of Charters on Parent Involvement | |
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| The Promise of Charter Innovation as a Pathway to Improving Public Education | |
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| Teacher Experience and Stability as Predicates for Innovation | |
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| Summary | |
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| Interlocking Power and the Deregulation of Public Education | |
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| The Influence of Wealth on Public Policy | |
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| The State and Philanthropy | |
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| The Charter Campaign and Political Mobilization of the Private Sector: The Case of New York State | |
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| Charter Schools and the Maximization of Economic Gain: Profiting from the Privatization of Public Schools | |
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| The Slippery Question of Profit and the Consolidation of Power | |
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| Partnership and Profit in the Game of Educational Privatization | |
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| Claiming Market Share: Strategic Organizing of the Charter Campaign | |
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| Collateral Damage: The Loss of Accountability | |
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| Reflections on Politics, Economics, and Ideology | |
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| "Crisis": A Moment for Dispossession and Profit | |
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| In a Landscape of Inequality: Whose Crisis Is It Anyway? | |
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| After the Floods: Charter Growth in New Orleans | |
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| Building an Education Renaissance: Chicago and Charter Education | |
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| Declaring "Crisis": School Closings and Charter Openings in New York City | |
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| A Geography and Archeology of Dispossession: Tracking the Policies and Their Impact | |
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| Making a Science of Dispossession: Focus on Testing, Ignore Dropout | |
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| The Dropout Epidemic | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Reclaiming "Public": Deepening National Commitments to Public Investment and Public Innovation | |
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| New Jersey: The Budget Crisis and Public Education | |
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| The Binary Tradeoffs of Charter Policy | |
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| Provocative Images of Public Innovation | |
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| Toward a New Consensus: The Increasing Call for Investment to Spur Innovation and Foster Effective Schooling | |
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| Reimagining and Reinvesting in a Public Education | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| About The Authors | |