The School Choice Roadmap - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The School Choice Roadmap write by Andrew Campanella. This book was released on 2020-01-21. The School Choice Roadmap available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. WINNER OF THE 2020 FOREWORD INDIES GOLD AWARD IN EDUCATION WINNER OF THE SILVER IPPY AWARD FOR BEST EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES You want your children to benefit from a great education. But every student is unique. One type of school might be a great fit for your neighbor's child, but it might not work for your son or daughter. Across the country, many parents today have more choices for their children's education than ever before. If you are starting the process of finding your child's first school—or if you want to choose a new learning environment—The School Choice Roadmap is for you. This first-of-its-kind book offers a practical, jargon-free overview of school choice policies, from public school open enrollment to private school scholarships and more. It breaks down the similarities and differences between traditional public schools, public charter schools, public magnet schools, online public schools, private schools, and homeschooling. Most importantly, The School Choice Roadmap offers a seven-step process that will help you harness the power of your own intuition—and your own expertise about your child's uniqueness—to help you find a school that reflects your family's goals, values, and priorities. Filled with sage advice from dozens of other parents who have pursued the school search process, and interviews with school leaders and teachers, The School Choice Roadmap is an optimistic, empowering book that cuts through the confusion in K-12 education—so that you can give your children every opportunity to succeed in school and in life.
A Parent's Guide to School Choice
A Parent's Guide to School Choice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Parent's Guide to School Choice write by Jaimi M Erickson. This book was released on 2024-02-13. A Parent's Guide to School Choice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As a former teacher who has seen the public education system from the perspective of a student, a college student, a teacher and a parent, A Parent's Guide to School Choice shares everything the author has learned throughout her experiences in and out of the education system. This is meant to be a school choice guide for parents to gain clarity. It will equip you and encourage you. Ultimately, it will show you that there is a school option to help your child learn, grow, thrive and succeed. This book and collection of resources provide some lines on the highway for you to steer through and really consider what school options will be best for your child. When you find the school choice option that will be best for your child, it will help them thrive. There may be an adjustment period, but when you see your child learning the way that is best for them, there is no better confidence-builder as a parent. Included in A Parent's Guide to School Choice, are resources in the appendix to provide clear comparison between the school choice options presented in the guide. In addition, assessment forms are included so you can be proactive as a parent prior to making any school choice for your child by evaluating their level of understanding before entering a school environment at home or traditional school. This is not a political discussion of school choice. It is a guide, or roadmap, to clarify all of the major school choice options and the pros and cons associated with each.
Hybrid Homeschooling
Hybrid Homeschooling - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hybrid Homeschooling write by Michael Q. McShane. This book was released on 2021-03-14. Hybrid Homeschooling available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. All across the country, in traditional public, public charter, and private schools, entrepreneurial educators are experimenting with the school day and school week. Hybrid Homeschools have students attend traditional classes in a brick-and-mortar school for some part of the week and homeschool for the rest of the week. Some do two days at home and three days at school, others the inverse, and still others split between four days at home or school and one day at the other. This book dives deep into hybrid homeschooling. It describes the history of hybrid homeschooling, the different types of hybrid homeschools operating around the country, and the policies that can both promote and thwart it. At the heart of the book are the stories of hybrid homeschoolers themselves. Based on numerous in-depth interviews, the book tells the story of hybrid homeschooling from both the family and educator perspective.
The Public School Advantage
The Public School Advantage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Public School Advantage write by Christopher A. Lubienski. This book was released on 2013-11-07. The Public School Advantage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nearly the whole of America’s partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vouchers and charter schools to the implementation of No Child Left Behind, policy makers have increasingly turned to market-based models to help improve our schools, believing that private institutions—because they are competitively driven—are better than public ones. With The Public School Advantage, Christopher A. and Sarah Theule Lubienski offer powerful evidence to undercut this belief, showing that public schools in fact outperform private ones. For decades research showing that students at private schools perform better than students at public ones has been used to promote the benefits of the private sector in education, including vouchers and charter schools—but much of these data are now nearly half a century old. Drawing on two recent, large-scale, and nationally representative databases, the Lubienskis show that any benefit seen in private school performance now is more than explained by demographics. Private schools have higher scores not because they are better institutions but because their students largely come from more privileged backgrounds that offer greater educational support. After correcting for demographics, the Lubienskis go on to show that gains in student achievement at public schools are at least as great and often greater than those at private ones. Even more surprising, they show that the very mechanism that market-based reformers champion—autonomy—may be the crucial factor that prevents private schools from performing better. Alternatively, those practices that these reformers castigate, such as teacher certification and professional reforms of curriculum and instruction, turn out to have a significant effect on school improvement. Despite our politics, we all agree on the fundamental fact: education deserves our utmost care. The Public School Advantage offers exactly that. By examining schools within the diversity of populations in which they actually operate, it provides not ideologies but facts. And the facts say it clearly: education is better off when provided for the public by the public.
Reinventing America's Schools
Reinventing America's Schools - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reinventing America's Schools write by David Osborne. This book was released on 2017-09-05. Reinventing America's Schools available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From David Osborne, the author of Reinventing Government--a biting analysis of the failure of America's public schools and a comprehensive plan for revitalizing American education. In Reinventing America's Schools, David Osborne, one of the world's foremost experts on public sector reform, offers a comprehensive analysis of the charter school movements and presents a theory that will do for American schools what his New York Times bestseller Reinventing Government did for public governance in 1992. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the city got an unexpected opportunity to recreate their school system from scratch. The state's Recovery School District (RSD), created to turn around failing schools, gradually transformed all of its New Orleans schools into charter schools, and the results are shaking the very foundations of American education. Test scores, school performance scores, graduation and dropout rates, ACT scores, college-going rates, and independent studies all tell the same story: the city's RSD schools have tripled their effectiveness in eight years. Now other cities are following suit, with state governments reinventing failing schools in Newark, Camden, Memphis, Denver, Indianapolis, Cleveland, and Oakland. In this book, Osborne uses compelling stories from cities like New Orleans and lays out the history and possible future of public education. Ultimately, he uses his extensive research to argue that in today's world, we should treat every public school like a charter school and grant them autonomy, accountability, diversity of school designs, and parental choice.
