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Chartered Schools: Two Hundred Years of Independent Academies in the United States, 1727-1925

reviewed 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
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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.)

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Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 105 Number 4, 2003, p. 647-649
https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 11025, Date Accessed: 7/16/2019 2:32:38 AM

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