Issues-at-a-Glance


More on Charter Schools
Kyo Yamashiro and Lisa Carlos, 1995

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What a Voucher Could Buy: A Survey of California's Private Schools
Marcella Dianda and Ronald Corwin, 1993

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Policy Briefs


Improving Student Achievement by Extending School: Is It Just a Matter of Time?
Julie Aronson, Joy Zimmerman, and Lisa Carlos, 1998

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Class-size Reduction: Lessons Learned from Experience
Joan Mc Robbie, Jeremy D. Finn, and Patrick Harman, 1998

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Can State Intervention Spur Academic Turnaround?
Joan McRobbie, Spring 1998.


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Skills for Tomorrow's Workforce
Srijati Ananda, Stanley Rabinowitz, Lisa Carlos and Kyo Yamashiro, 1995

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Deregulating Categorical Programs: Will it Work?
Lisa Carlos and Jo Ann Izu, 1993

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Site-Based Management: An Experiment in Governance
Lisa Carlos and Mary Amsler, 1993

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Charter Schools
Mary Amsler and Lori Mullholland, 1992

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Future Directions for School/College Collaboration
Patricia R. Brown and Mary Amsler, 1992

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Beyond the Rhetoric of Restructuring
Mary Amsler, 1991

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The Changing Contours of School Finance
Allan Odden, 1990

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Accountability in Public Education
Patricia R. Brown, 1990

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Redefining Teacher Work Roles: Prospects and Possibilities
Julie E. Koppich, Patricia R. Brown and Mary Amsler, 1990

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How Changing Class Size Affects Classrooms and Students
Douglass E. Mitchell and Sara Ann Beach, 1990

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Raising Young Children While Working: The American Family in Crisis
J. Ronald Lally and Mary Amsler, 1989

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Year-Round Education Through Multi-Track Schools
Ruben A. Carriedo and Paul D. Goren, 1989

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Community Colleges: Reshaping an Educational Vision
Mary Amsler, 1989

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The Promise of Distance Learning
Dean Bradshaw and Patricia R. Brown, 1989

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Policy Updates


Special Education: At A Crossroads
Elizabeth Cooley, 1995

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The Privatization of Choice
Lisa Carlos, 1993

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Choice Heats Up
Mary Amsler, 1992

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New Trends in Educating At-Risk Students
Larry Guthrie, 1991

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Research Reports and Case Studies


What We Know about Vouchers: The Facts behind the Rhetoric
Erica Adelsheimer and Kate Rix, September 1999

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(An update to this report is also available.)

California's Class Size Reduction: Implications for Equity, Practice, and Implementation
Edward Wexler, Jo Ann Izu, Lisa Carlos, Bruce Fuller, Gerald Hayward, and Mike Kirst, 1998

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California Curriculum Policy in the 1990s: We Don't Have to Lead to be in Front.
Lisa Carlos and Mike Kirst, 1997

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From Paper to Practice: Challenges Facing a California Charter School
Ronald Corwin, Lisa Carlos, Bart Largomarsino and Roger Scott, 1996

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Freedom and Innovation in California's Charter Schools
Ronald Corwin and John Flaherty (Editors), 1995

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Parent Involvement Contracts in California's Charter Schools: Strategy for Educational Improvement or Method of Exclusion?
Henry J. Becker, Kathy Nakagawa and Ronald Corwin, 1995

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Stop the Clock: Ending the Tyranny of Time in Education
Julie Aronson, 1995

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A View from the Bottom Up: School-based Systemic Reform in California, Volume I: Lessons Learned and Volume II: Ten Profiles
Lisa Carlos and Jo Ann Izu, 1995

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Vision and Reality: A First-Year Look at California's Charter Schools
Marcella Dianda and Ronald Corwin, 1994

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Private Schools and Parental Choice: Dubious Assumptions, Frail Claims,
and Excessive Hyperbole

Ronald Corwin, 1993

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Private Schools and Parental Choice: Dubious Assumptions, Frail Claims,
and Excessive Hyperbole

Ronald Corwin, 1993

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An Early Look at Charter Schools in California
Marcella Dianda and Ronald Corwin, 1993

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