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American Education, 10/e
Joel Spring
Local Control, Home Schooling, Choice, Charter Schools, Privatization, and Commercialism

Chapter Outline

School boards

  1. Types of representation
  2. Impact of community power structures on school boards and superintendents

Educational bureaucracy

  1. Defining educational bureaucracies
  2. The impact of educational bureaucracies upon educational control

Site-based management

  1. Defining site-based management
  2. The impact of site-based management upon educational control

Alternatives to traditional public school structures

  1. Home schooling
  2. School choice
  3. Charter schools
  4. Privatization of schooling
  5. For-profit schools
  6. Commercialism in schools








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