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Chartered Schools: Two Hundred Years of Independent Academies in the United States, 1727-1925reviewed by Peter Gow - 2003 Title: Chartered Schools: Two Hundred Years of Independent Academies in the United States, 1727-1925 Author(s): Nancy Beadie and Kim Tolley (Editors) Publisher: Routledge/Falmer, New York ISBN: 0415931185, Pages: 384, Year: 2002 Search for book at Amazon.com A paradox of contemporary school reform is the call by charter
school supporters to, in effect, “let a hundred flowers
bloom,” even as “standards” advocates insist that
school success be measured by batteries of annual tests. In
Chartered Schools: Two Hundred Years of Independent Academies in
the United States, 1727-1925, editors Nancy Beadie and Kim
Tolley represent an era when hundreds of flowers did bloom
in a collection of essays that explore the educational diversity
that existed before the advent of the homogenized system that
“school reform” claims to be trying to
fix.
In fifteen essays, including several by the editors,
Chartered Schools provides an overview of the American
academy movement clustered around the themes of
“Institutions,” “Students,”
“Teachers,” and “Systems.” The
“Institutions” sections includes essays on the nature
of the “academy,” which Beadie and Tolley are at pains
to differentiate from purely tuition-driven, for-profit
“venture schools” as being institutions with some
degree of community support in the form of oversight, a government
charter, or even public or private financial support.... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Peter Gow
Beaver Country Day School E-mail Author PETER GOW is an academic dean at Beaver Country Day School, Chestnut Hill, MA.
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