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Download full textEstkowski, Terri – NCSSSMST Journal, 2008
In life, each person is offered opportunities, one after the other, until life ceases. For the author, one of those opportunities was to attend the Kalamazoo Area Mathematics and Science Center (KAMSC), an NCSSSMST school. While attending KAMSC as a member of its inaugural class required a bit of imagination regarding the opportunity at hand, and…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Science Education, Mathematics Education, High Schools
Lubienski, Chris – 2001
This paper examines school choice reforms in one key state, within the broader context of public education and privatization. Choice advocates describe the public nature of charter schools in terms of access, funding, choice, and effects. Critics see charter schools as precursors to more market-based reforms such as vouchers. In reviewing the…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Nontraditional Education
Lubienski, Chris – 2000
This paper examines various claims made by charter-school advocates that charter schools are publicly funded, open to all, are chartered by public entities, and thus are a form of public schooling. It addresses this subject by comparing the rhetoric of Michigan's charter-school reformers with that of the common-school reformers of the 19th…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Definitions, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Scott, Janelle T.; Barber, Margaret E. – 2002
This paper uses the charter-school legislation of three states-Arizona, California, and Michigan--as a lens to understand the policy values embodied in school--choice reforms. It questions the prevailing rubrics of the Center for Education Reform and the American Federation of Teachers. Briefly stated, the former ranks laws as either…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Legislation, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Michigan State Univ., East Lansing. Education Policy Center. – 2000
Determining the value of school-choice programs depends on an assessment of consequences on the differing elements of the school system. The International Conference on School Choice and Educational Change at Michigan State University explored the themes of governance, equity and access, innovation, student outcomes, and accountability from the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Democratic Values, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
Peer reviewedLubienski, Christopher – Educational Policy, 2003
Draws from the implementation of reform policies in Michigan to examine both the politics and political economy on the effects of schools as instruments for serving consumer preferences--a perspective referred to as instrumentalism. Contends that instrumentalism emphasizes individual private purposes and nonpublic forms of governance and…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Comprehensive School Reform, Elementary Secondary Education, Institutional Characteristics
