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Charter School Operations and Performance

New Evidence from California

By: Ron Zimmer,Richard J. Buddin,Derrick Chau,Brian Gill,Cassandra Guarino,Laura Hamilton,Cathy Krop,Daniel McCaffrey,Melinda Sandler,Dominic Brewer

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Charter School Operations and Performance

New Evidence from California

By: Ron Zimmer,Richard J. Buddin,Derrick Chau,Brian Gill,Cassandra Guarino,Laura Hamilton,Cathy Krop,Daniel McCaffrey,Melinda Sandler,Dominic Brewer

Analyzes an array of issues pertaining to accessibility, student achievement, governance, and operation of charter schools in California. Four specific research questions were investigated: (1) What population of students attends charter schools? (2) Is student achievement higher in charter schools than in conventional public schools? (3) What oversight and support do the chartering authorities provide? (4) How do charter schools differ from their conventional public school counterparts in terms of their operation, including finances, academic achievement, and staffing?

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Rand Corporation

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ISBN 10

0833034146

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9780833034144

Developing a School Finance System for Kâ€“12 Reform in Qatar

By: Cassandra M. Guarino,Titus Galama,Louay Constant,Gabriella C. Gonzalez,Jeffery C. Tanner

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Developing a School Finance System for Kâ€“12 Reform in Qatar

By: Cassandra M. Guarino,Titus Galama,Louay Constant,Gabriella C. Gonzalez,Jeffery C. Tanner

Reform-minded leaders of Qatar, who have embarked on a sweeping reform of their nation's education system, asked RAND to evaluate their education finance system and offer suggestions for improvements. The authors analyze the system's evolution and resource allocation patterns between 2004 and 2006 and develop analytic tools for performing the evaluation, including a framework that allows assessment of the system in light of six main objectives.

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137

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Rand Corporation

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0833048252

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9780833048257

Letters and Orations

By: Cassandra Fedele

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Letters and Orations

By: Cassandra Fedele

By the end of the fifteenth century, Cassandra Fedele (1465-1558), a learned middle-class woman of Venice, was arguably the most famous woman writer and scholar in Europe. A cultural icon in her own time, she regularly corresponded with the king of France, lords of Milan and Naples, the Borgia pope Alexander VI, and even maintained a ten-year epistolary exchange with Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain that resulted in an invitation for her to join their court. Fedele's letters reveal the central, mediating role she occupied in a community of scholars otherwise inaccessible to women. Her unique admittance into this community is also highlighted by her presence as the first independent woman writer in Italy to speak publicly and, more importantly, the first to address philosophical, political, and moral issues in her own voice. Her three public orations and almost all of her letters, translated into English, are presented here for the first time.

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210

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University of Chicago Press

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0226239330

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9780226239330

Nonclassroom-based Charter Schools in California and the Impact of SB 740

By: Cassandra M. Guarino,Ron Zimmer,Derrick Chau,Cathy Krop

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Nonclassroom-based Charter Schools in California and the Impact of SB 740

By: Cassandra M. Guarino,Ron Zimmer,Derrick Chau,Cathy Krop

Charter schools are publicly funded schools that have the flexibility to operate outside normal district control. They are designed to provide greater educational choice to families, reduce bureaucratic constraints on educators, and provide competitive pressure to induce improvement in conventional public schools while remaining publicly accountable. This document reports on an evaluation of the legislatively mandated (under SB 740) process of evaluating California's nonclassroom-based (NCB) charter schools, in which instruction generally takes the form of independent study, home study, or some combination of these two with classroom-based instruction. The report concludes that the impact of SB 740 has been significant and largely in accordance with the explicit goals of the legislation. However, despite the financial savings to the state and adaptations on the part of NCB charter schools to the requirements of SB 740, the success of the legislation as a mechanism for improving education for California students is unclear, and it may have had some harmful as well as beneficial effects. SB 740 has sent a strong and important message to NCB schools that they must be careful regarding the ways in which they use resources or face strong sanctions. But the regulations need to be reshaped to fit a newly acquired understanding of how these schools operate within the context of all public education and to serve the needs of students more effectively.

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RAND Corporation

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0833037536

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9780833037534

Developing a School Finance System for K-12 Reform in Qatar

By: Cassandra M. Guarino

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By: Cassandra M. Guarino

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0833046551

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Book's by Cassandra Guarino

Charter School Operations and Performance

Charter School Operations and Performance

Developing a School Finance System for Kâ€“12 Reform in Qatar

Developing a School Finance System for Kâ€“12 Reform in Qatar

Letters and Orations

Letters and Orations

Nonclassroom-based Charter Schools in California and the Impact of SB 740

Nonclassroom-based Charter Schools in California and the Impact of SB 740

Developing a School Finance System for K-12 Reform in Qatar

Developing a School Finance System for K-12 Reform in Qatar

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