Charter Schools: Answering the Call; Saving Our Children

by Ashraf Esmail (Editor), Alice Duhon-Ross McCallum (Editor)

Overview

Charter Schools will stimulate the thinking of educators, professionals, and the general public who are concerned about the educational experience of our nation’s children. The chapters in this book are designed by a group of academic researchers, scholars in higher education, and leaders in academic arenas. The major thrust of this book is to appeal to individuals of this nation to join forces and save our children from inadequate academic experiences that will serve as a damaging element to their growth, development, and success in life. This book articulates the essential elements of effective charter schools. It establishes a blueprint for the infrastructure and staffing of a charter school that will successfully instill passion and purpose in its students. Charter Schools is a must-read for those endeavoring to save the children from our failing school systems and the bleak path set before them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761858232
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	12/30/2011
Series:	Issues in Black Education
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Ashraf Esmail is an assistant professor in social sciences at Southern University in New Orleans. His research interests include urban, multicultural, and peace education; family; cultural diversity; political sociology; criminology; social problems; and deviance.

Alice Duhon-Ross McCallum serves as department head of the MS Higher Education and Adult Learning in the Richard W. Riley College of Education at Walden University. Her current research focuses on multicultural education and counseling with special interest in school violence, family in poverty, and conflict resolution.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

This collection of research-based articles uplifts and reignites the passion and dedication of existing charter school educators, administrators, board members, and community supporters. This compilation also educates and inspires those new to the charter school movement. This book demonstrates that parents must have the right to choose the best educational platform for their children despite purchasing power. Additionally, the research provided insists this is an American right all parents must be afforded. This important research reminds all Americans of our societal responsibility and humanitarian call to provide all children with a productive and competitive education. This is a must-read for twenty-first-century educational reformists! —Angele Thibodeaux Burns, Ph.D., principal, Imagine Academy of Environmental Science and Mathematics and professor, Missouri Baptist University The research provided seems to support the efforts of charter schools to establish a research-based curriculum which will use best practices to produce impressive results in the educational arena for all students involved. These collections of articles are definitely research supported and address the charter school movement in this country. This is a must-read! —Mary Augustus, Ph.D., Axia University of Phoenix