Charter School Outcomes Book

Preface     vii
Contributors     ix
Introduction     xiii
Assessing Teaching and Learning in Charter Schools   Herbert J. Walberg
Methods of Assessing Achievement of Students in Charter Schools   Caroline Hoxby   Sonali Murarka     7
Teachers' Academic Focus on Learning in Charter and Traditional Public Schools   Ellen Goldring   Xiu Cravens     39
Teams Versus Bureaucracies: Personnel Policy, Wage Setting, and Teacher Quality in Traditional Public, Charter, and Private Schools   Michael Podgursky     61
Charter School Finance, Governance, and Law   Paul E. Peterson
Back to the Future: Sustaining an Equitable Public-Private Model of School Funding   Sheree T. Speakman     85
Charter School Governance   Paul T. Hill   Robin J. Lake     113
Charter Law and Charter Operation: Re-examining the Charter School Marketplace   Kenneth K. Wong   Francis X. Shen     131
Charter School Effects on Student Achievement   Dominic J. Brewer   June Ahn
Charter Schools in California   Ron Zimmer   Richard Buddin     163
Charter Schools in North Carolina   Robert Bifulco   Helen F. Ladd     195
Charter Schools in Idaho   Dale Ballou   Bettie Teasley   Tim Zeidner     221
Charter School Effects on Achievement: Where We Are and Where We Are Going   Mark Berends   Caroline Watral   Bettie Teasley   Anna Nicotera     243
School Choice: What the NCES Can and Cannot Tell Us   Mark Schneider   Peter Tice     267
Index     283