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Both volumes of Creative (and Cultural) Industry Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century map and elucidate the adaptations and challenges faced by the creative professionals and the entrepreneurial solutions they have co-developed.

Deficient urban schooling remains one of America's most pressing - and stubborn - public policy problems. This important new book details and evaluates a radical and promising new approach to K-12 education reform. Strife and Progress explains for a broad audience the "portfolio strategy" for providing urban education - its rationale, implementation, and results.

Aimed toward elected officials, school reform activists, and educators, this book is the result of the first national-scale study of charter school accountability. The authors researched one hundred-fifty schools and sixty authorizing agencies in Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, and Michigan.

This review of the furious debate in America over school choice examines the benefits of choice for children, families, and schools - and shows how properly designed choice programs can prevent the harmful outcomes opponents fear.

Explores how US state laws and policies have stacked the deck against charter schools by limiting the number of charter schools allowed in a state, forbidding for-profit firms from holding charters, and forcing them to pay rent out of operating funds. They explain how these policies can be amended to level the playing field and give charter schools a fairer chance to succeed.

America's education system faces a stark dilemma: it needs governmental oversight, rules and regulations, but it also needs to be adaptable enough to address student needs and the many different problems that can arise at any given school - something that large educational bureaucracies are notoriously bad at. The authors offer a solution.

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Based on new research, this book identifies the essential elements of reform strategies that can transform school performance in big cities beset by poverty, social instability, racial isolation, and labor unrest. It also suggests ways that local leaders can assemble the necessary funding and political support to make such strategies work.

Charter schools are among the most debated and least understood phenomena in American education today. At the heart of these matters is a contested question of accountability.

This book provides practical guidance for mayors and private sector leaders for staying engaged in education reform by creating new public-private institutions to support high quality schools.

Explores how US state laws and policies have stacked the deck against charter schools by limiting the number of charter schools allowed in a state, forbidding for-profit firms from holding charters, and forcing them to pay rent out of operating funds. They explain how these policies can be amended to level the playing field and give charter schools a fairer chance to succeed.

Proposes a means of taking government bureaucracy out of public schools.

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The review of the furious national debate over school choice examines the benefits of choice for children, families, and schools-and shows how properly designed choice programmes can prevent the hramful putcomes opponents fear.

Paul T. Hill examines the real-world factors that can complicate, delay, and in some instances interfere with the positive cause-and-effect relationships identified by the theories behind school choice. He explains why schools of choice haven't yet achieved a broader appeal and suggests more realistic expectations about timing and a more complete understanding of what must be done to make choice work.