Free to Learn: Lessons from Model Charter Schools

by Xiaochin Claire Yan and Lance T. Izumi

Charters are by nature different not just from traditional public schools, but from one another. With their freedom and flexibility, some charter schools have opened doors and opportunities for many poor minority children who were previously trapped at failing campuses run by school district bureaucracies. These successful charter schools have perfected alternative models of organization, management, and discipline that shatter the status-quo orthodoxy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0936488956
• ISBN13: 9780936488950
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Pacific Research Institute
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.7"