Charter Schools: Creating Hope and Opportunity for American Education

by Joe Nathan

Book Overview

"[One of] the best books on schools and schooling to cross oureditors' desks this year."

--The American School Board Journal, August 1997

Award-winning former public school educator Joe Nathan draws fromnationwide surveys, research, and visits to dozens of charterschools to address key questions about charter schools. Who startsthese schools? What kinds of students attAnd? Are charter schoolsusing ideas and techniques from which other...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787944548
• ISBN13: 9780787944544
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A book thatparents and educators must read!

Charter Schools may just be the secret to better public education. In a free market economy, what works better than competition? Charter schools are forcing our public schools to work, because they are showing the public that it can be done, well, with the money that we already have out there. Read this book-- and start wondering, where does your tax money really go?