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Berends, Mark, Ed.; Springer, Matthew G., Ed.; Walberg, Herbert J., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2007
Sponsored by the National Center on School Choice, a research consortium headed by Vanderbilt University, this volume examines the growth and outcomes of the charter school movement. Starting in 1992-93 when the nation's first charter school was opened in Minneapolis, the movement has now spread to 40 states and the District of Columbia and by…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Effectiveness
Schneider, Barbara Ed.; McDonald, Sarah-Kathryn Ed. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006
"Scale Up in Education, Volume 1: Ideas in Principle" examines the challenges of "scaling up" from a multidisciplinary perspective. It brings together contributions from disciplines that routinely take promising innovations to scale, including medicine, business, engineering, computing, and education. Together the contributors explore appropriate…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Innovation, Psychometrics, Educational Research