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Doctoral Dissertation
Charter Schools: A Descriptive Study of Empowerment within the Operation of Charter Schools
Available from: ProQuest - Dissertations and Theses
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Abstract/Notes: The purpose of this study was to describe the variables that contributed to the establishment of a charter school in an urban Arizona district and rural California district noting the similarities and dissimilarities, and to disclose the factors used to justify the implementation of the Montessori theory of education. Another purpose of the study was to describe the guidelines for maintaining a charter school, and the evaluation methods and factors used in the school's unique experience with staffing and funding. This research was descriptive and employed a case study approach. Descriptive research methodology was used to identify the same factors found in the Arizona study replicated by the researcher. Nonprobability, purposive sampling technique was the sampling used in the study. The instrument used for the study was interviews. Findings. The NFL/YET Academy in Arizona and Discovery Charter School in California experienced many similarities when the same variables were applied to both schools. As a result, the stakeholders of both schools used the principles of the organizational theory of empowerment to implement choices in curriculum. This process allowed the stakeholders an opportunity to meet the educational needs of students in the community. The following conclusions were made: (1) community empowerment plays a vital role in educating children; (2) the charter school movement allows parents, teachers, administrators, and community leaders to be involved in the creation of school governance and curriculum; and (3) charter schools allow all stakeholders to become involved in the decision-making process. The following are recommendations for further study: (1) This study should be conducted using a greater number of charter schools, and (2) This study should be conducted using administrator's leadership style in the organizational theory area of structure/roles.
Language: English
Published: La Verne, California, 2003
Article
The OEkos Schools Program [13 participating schools]
Publication: OEkosphere [Œkosphere], vol. 1, no. 4
Date: Jul/Aug 1995
Pages: 6
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Language: English
Article
Heads of Schools Section: How Early Learning Can "Reform" Schools
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: The Constructive Triangle (1974-1989), vol. 16, no. 2
Date: Spring 1989
Pages: 6, 8
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Language: English
ISSN: 0010-700X
Doctoral Dissertation
New Education and Alternative Schools in Taiwan: Educational Research from 1949 to 2005 Taking Special Account of Ten Alternative Schools
Asia, China, East Asia, Taiwan
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Abstract/Notes: Reviewed in Communications 2008/1 // In her dissertation she analyses the efforts of New Education in her home country and compares them to European reform approaches. In this context she analyses and evaluates a large amount of written documents and adds to her literary research especially for the ten alternative schools her own studies at these schools and interviews with the educationalists/teachers responsible. One of the analysed schools was a Montessori school, another one was a Waldorf school. The survey communicates interesting insights and findings about school development in an increasingly democratising Asian country that is scarcely considered in Germany.
Language: English
Published: Münster, Germany, 2005
Article
The OEkos Schools Program [13 participating schools]
Publication: OEkosphere [Œkosphere], vol. 1, no. 5
Date: Nov/Dec 1995
Pages: 6
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Language: English
Article
Two Views of Neighborhood Schools: Kansas City, Vincent Questions Virtues of Neighborhood Schools; Minneapolis, Newuman Sees Possibilities Amid Community School Movement
Available from: University of Connecticut Libraries - American Montessori Society Records
Publication: Public School Montessorian, vol. 9, no. 3
Date: Spring 1997
Pages: 9
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Abstract/Notes: Frank Vincent discusses neighborhood schools in Kansas City, Missouri. Jean Neuman discusses schools in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Article
Private Schools, Public Money: How Independent Schools Have Used the Bond Market to Finance Expansion
Publication: Public School Montessorian, vol. 18, no. 3
Date: Spring 2006
Pages: 12-13
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Abstract/Notes: Includes three case studies
Language: English
ISSN: 1071-6246
Conference Paper
America's Alternative Schools: Prototypes for New Public Schools
Available from: ERIC
Annual Meeting of the University Council for Educational Administration (Houston, Texas, October 29-31, 1993)
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Abstract/Notes: As prototypes for new forms of education, public and private alternative schools have much to offer regular schools in the way of new ideas. This paper provides an overview of alternative schools and the options available. Alternative schools are characterized by a more selected student body, a smaller and less bureaucratic structure, values derived from within the school community, holistic student work, and a recognition of the school-survival issue. The basic educational frameworks within the array of public alternative school options are identified: (1) the traditional approach; (2) the nontraditional and nongraded approach; (3) schools that focus on the development of student abilities; (4) schools that emphasize techniques for delivering education (rather than philosophy); (5) schools with community-based organizing principles; (6) the self-directed, Montessori-like environment; (7) schools that are intentionally structured for particular student groups; and (8) subcontracted arrangements. In conclusion, alternative schools are flexible and able to respond to students' various needs. (LMI)
Language: English
Published: Houston, Texas: University Council for Educational Administration, Oct 1993
Pages: 19 p.
Article
Montessōri yōgo / モンテッソーリ用語 [Montessori Terminology]
Publication: Montessori Kyōiku / モンテッソーリ教育 [Montessori Education], no. 7
Date: 1975
Pages: 125-135
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Language: Japanese
ISSN: 0913-4220
Article
Les précurseurs de Mme Montessori (part 2 of 3) [The precursors of Ms. Montessori]
Available from: Université Caen Normandie
Publication: Pour l'ère nouvelle: revue internationale d'èducation nouvelle, vol. 5, no. 22
Date: Sep 1926
Pages: 119-126
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Abstract/Notes: This is part 2 of a 3-part article.
Language: French