Böcker av Robert Maranto

The charter school is becoming one of the most significant attempts at public education reform in the US. This text looks at the charter school movement through a focused lens: it examines charter schools in Arizona, which currently accounts for 30 per cent of all charter schools.

This book presents the first published accounts and evaluations of the first free market in education in the U.S., Arizona charter schools.

Offers a data study of career-noncareer relations in US administrations with regard to the history of relations between careerists and political appointees. Interviews and comments from about 50 surveys also provide impressions about relations during the Reagan administration.

With rare exceptions, few large institutions change bosses every two or three years. Yet the U.S. Government has temps on top. American government has 3,000 presidential political appointees and thousands more state and local political appointees, who refer to their in-and- out bosses as Christmas help.