Charter Schools and Accountability in Public Education
- ISBN-10
- 0815702671
- ISBN-13
- 9780815702672
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 125
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Brookings Inst Press
- Authors
- Robin J. Lake, Paul Thomas Hill, Mary Beth Celio
Description
"This book examines charter school accountability in theory and in fact. It represents an early effort to understand how new forms of accountability for public education actually work, in the process drawing lessons that are especially relevant to the standards-based reform movement.".
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