Recommended Readings for 07B:240

 

Date: Topics-Readings-Assignments:
JANUARY 31

Bielick, Stacey and Christopher Chapman. 2003. “Trends in the Use of School Choice, 1993-1999: Statistical Analysis Report.” National Center for Education Statistics 2003-031, Washington DC.

Cookson, Peter W. Jr. and Barbara Schneider. 1995. “Why School Choice? A Question of Values.”  pp. 561-581 in Cookson, Peter W. Jr. and Barbara Schneider (eds.), Transforming Schools. New York: Garland Publishing.

Fuller, Bruce, Richard F. Elmore, and Gary Orfield (eds.). 1996. Who Chooses? Who Loses? Culture, Institutions, and the Unequal Effects of School Choice. New York: Teachers College Press.

Koretz, Daniel M. 2002. “Limitations in the Use of Achievement Tests as Measures of Educators’ Productivity.” Journal of Human Resources 37: 752-777.

Lynch, Kathleen. 2000. “Research and Theory on Equality and Education.”  pp. 85-105 in Maureen T. Hallinan (ed.), Handbook of the Sociology of Education New York: Kluwer.

Meyer, John W., W. Richard Scott, David Strang, and Andrew L. Creighton. 1994. “Bureaucratization Without Centralization: Changes in the Organizational System of U.S. Public Education, 1940-1980.” pp. Xx-xx in Richard Scott and John Meyer, Institutional Environments and Organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Witte, John F. The Market Approach to Education: An Analysis of America's First Voucher Program.

Wolfe, Alan (ed.). 2003. School Choice: The Moral Debate. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press.

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FEBRUARY 14

United States Department of Education. 2003. Trends in the Use of School Choice, 1993-1999. Statistical Analysis Report. Washington DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

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MARCH 21

Brown, Heath , Jeffrey Henig, Natalie Lacireno-Paquet, and Thomas T. Holyoke. 2004. “Scale of Operations and Locus of Control in Market- Versus Mission-Oriented Charter Schools.” Social Science Quarterly 85: 1035-1051.

Bulkley, Katrina E. 2004. “Revisiting Decision Making and Disaggregating Charter Schools: A Comment on "Market-Versus Mission-Oriented Charter Schools." Social Science Quarterly 85:1057-1060.

Contreras, A. Reynaldo.1995. “The Charter School Movement in California and Elsewhere.” Education and Urban Society 27: 213‑228.

Cookson, Peter, Jr. and Kristina Berger 2002. Expect Miracles: Charter Schools and the Politics of Hope and Despair. Boulder: Westview Press.

Dee, Thomas S. and Helen Fu. 2004. “Do Charter Schools Skim Students or Drain Resources?”  Economics of Education Review 23: 259-271.

Henig, Jeffrey  Heath Brown, Thomas T. Holyoke, and Natalie Lacireno-Paquet. 2004. “Research on Emergent Phenomena: Responses and Speculations.” Social Science Quarterly 85: 1073-1077.

Johnson, Susan Moore and Jonathan Landman. XXXX. “’Sometimes Bureaucracy Has Its Charms’: The Working Conditions of Teachers in Deregulated Schools.”

Lubienski, Christopher. 2003. “Innovation in Education Markets: Theory and Evidence on the Impact of Competition and Choice in Charter Schools.” American Educational Research Journal 40: 395-443.

Nathan, Joe. 2004. “The Charter School Movement: Encouraging Results and a Disappointing Article.” Social Science Quarterly 85:1061-1071.

National Assessment of Educational Progress. 2004. “America’s Charter Schools: Results from the NAEP 2003 Pilot Study.”  NCES 2005-456. National Center for Education Statistics, Washington DC.

Wells, Amy‑Stuart, Alejandra Lopez, Janelle Scott, and, Jennifer Jellison Holme.  1999. “Charter Schools as Postmodern Paradox: Rethinking Social Stratification in an Age of Deregulated School Choice.”  Harvard Educational Review 69: 172‑204.

Witte, John F. 2004. “Is it Privatization or Educational Choice that Matters? Comments on "Market-Versus Mission-Oriented Charter Schools." Social Science Quarterly 85: 1052-1056.

Wohlstetter, Priscilla  Courtney L. Malloy, Guilbert C. Hentschke, and Joanna Smith. 2004. “Improving Service Delivery in Education Through Collaboration: An Exploratory Study of the Role of Cross-Sectoral Alliances in the Development and Support of Charter Schools.” Social Science Quarterly 85: 1078-1096..

Wong, Michael Paul A. and William G. Tierney. 2001. “Reforming Faculty Work: Culture, Structure, and the Dilemma of Organizational Change.”  Teachers College Record 103: 1080-1101

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APRIL 04

Smrekar, Claire and Ellen B. Goldring. 1999. School Choice in Urban America: Magnet Schools and the Pursuit of Equity. New York: Teachers College Press.

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