Questions You Should Ask About Charter Schools and Vouchers

"Seymour Sarason, a luminary in the field of public education and long considered the voice of reason, is no opponent of charter schools and vouchers. But his vast experience forces him to predict that we will end up unable to explain why one charter school succeeds while another fails and that we will have no secure basis for learning from success or failure. Creating and sustaining a charter school is a complex and demanding task, but that issue has been scandalously ignored, as if it were a narrow engineering process for which good intentions are all that matter. And vouchers may introduce more problems than they solve, including underfunded schools, inexperienced teachers, and a lack of long-term planning." "Sarason is no dyspeptic critic, either. He speaks not from an armchair, but from his personal experience in creating new settings and studying what others have attempted. His book addresses the issues of the predictable problems of creating a new setting for educating our nation's children."--BOOK JACKET.

Year

2002

Language

English

Publisher

Heinemann

Editions

1

Pages

136

ISBN

9780325004051

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