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Direct linkGrey House Publishing, 2009
From zero in 1991 to 3,800 eighteen years later, charter schools (public schools under contract) today educate well over a million students. This updated, second edition examines the unusual experiment that is charter education and the controversies that surround public choice and charter schools as a means of educational reform. Written by…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Charter Schools, Printed Materials, State Standards
Peer reviewedParker, Franklin – Peabody Journal of Education, 1994
One in a collection of papers on self-made millionaire and educational philanthropist George Peabody offers a listing of his gifts and legacies, which fall into the categories of libraries, lyceums, athenaeum, art, music; science; model housing; education; exploration; patriotic causes; historical societies; hospitals; churches; legacies; and…
Descriptors: Arts Centers, Churches, Donors, Educational History
