Choosing the Right Educational Path for Your Child: What Are the Options? Book

Preface   Paula J. Carreiro   Eileen Shields-West     vii
Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction: School Choice: A Personal History   Michael Thompson     1
General Principles
Model and Mission: What a School Wants, What a School Needs   Keith Weller Frome     9
Governance: Trying to Perfect   Eileen Shields-West     17
Financing Education: The Worm in the Apple   Peter M. Branch     27
General Choices
American Public Education   Paula J. Carreiro     37
Independent Schools   Pearl Rock Kane     45
Chartering Choices: A Strategy for Creating New Schools   Bruno V. Manno     55
The Ends of the Spectrum: A Comparison of Traditional and Progressive Schools   Richard P. Fitzgerald     65
The Too-Long Summer Vacation: School Calendar Reform   Charles Ballinger     71
Particular Choices
The Preprimary Schools of Reggio Emilia   Pam Oken-Wright     81
The Right Place: Nursery School in the Twenty-First Century   Gay Cioffi     93
The New (Old) Vision: Montessori Education in the Twenty-First Century   Maura C. Joyce     99
Multiple Intelligences: Capitalizing on Strengths   Thomas R.Hoerr     109
Schools for Gifted and Talented Students   Virginia H. Burney     117
Home Schooling   Merrill Hall     127
Schools for Students with Special Learning Needs   Marcie C. Roberts     135
Specialty Arts High Schools   Mitzi Yates Lizarraga     143
New Age Academy: An Experimental Village School Model   Gloria H. Cooper     151
International and Internationally Minded Schools   Anne-Marie Pierce     157
Virtual Schools Are the Future   Lisa Snell     165
The Rise and Fall and Rise of Catholic Schools   Robert Mattingly     177
Jewish Day Schools in the Twenty-First Century   Laurie Piette     185
Islamic Schools: The Struggle for Successful Integration   Farhat Siddiqui     193
Christian Schools: Redeeming Lives and Culture   Erik P. Ellefsen     197
Episcopal Schools: An Anglican Legacy   Ann Gordon     205
Boarding Schools: The Boarding Advantage   Elisabeth Griffith     213
Cultivating Manliness: The Case for Boys' Schools   Damon Bradley     219
Where Girls Come First: Twenty-First-Century Girls' Schools   Ilana DeBare      227
The Future Course
Transmogrifying Education for the Twenty-First Century   Patrick F. Bassett     235
Future Stock vs. Future Shock   Richard K. Jung     241
About the Contributors     247