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Inside Urban Charter Schools Promising Practices and Strategies in Five High-Performing Schools

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ISBN-10: 1934742104

ISBN-13: 9781934742105

Edition: 2009

Authors: Katherine K. Merseth, Kristy Cooper, John Roberts, Mara Casey Tieken, Jon Valant

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Inside Urban Charter Schools offers an unprecedentedly intimate glimpse into the world of charter schools by profiling five high-performing urban charter schools serving predominantly low-income, minority youth in Massachusetts Interviews, focus groups, and classroom observations conducted over the course of two years flesh out rich and colorful portraits of daily life in these schools. Using an analytic framework grounded in research on nonprofit management and effective schools, the authors show that these schools excel along the organizational dimensions of structure, systems, human resource strategies, culture, and clarity of mission. By raising provocative questions for parents,…    
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Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Harvard Education Publishing Group (HEPG)
Publication date: 1/30/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.836