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On the Rocketship : How Top Charter Schools Are Pushing the Envel

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Book Title
On the Rocketship : How Top Charter Schools Are Pushing the Envel
ISBN
9781118607640

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Publisher
Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
ISBN-10
1118607643
ISBN-13
9781118607640
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201629290

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
352 Pages
Publication Name
On the Rocketship : How Top Charter Schools Are Pushing the Envelope
Language
English
Subject
Administration / General, Educational Psychology, General, Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Author
Richard Whitmire
Subject Area
Education
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2014-006767
Table Of Content
Introduction 1 Part 1: The Players Rocketship Finally Launches outside California 7 John Danner 9 Preston Smith 15 Danner''s Big Pivot 19 Part II: The Startup Years A Charter Fund Designed to Nurture Top CMOs 25 Did the Butterfly Effect Give Wings to Rocketship? 27 Hurricane Katrina 29 Startup Meets Smokestack 31 Sci-Fi-Inspired Software 41 Joel Klein Does the Unexpected 43 Recruiting the Key (Outside) Players 45 The Hard Sell: Pitching the First Rocketship 53 Opening Mateo Sheedy: Tough Times 61 NewSchools Launches Charter Accelerator Fund II 65 How to Build a Fibonacci School 67 Part III: The Growth Years The Ideal Personnel Department? Not within Rocketship 73 Alum Rock Rejects Rocketship Is That a Bad Thing? 79 Rocketship Finds a Friend 81 Charter School Growth Fund Puts Rocketship on the Map 85 Slivka''s Sci-Fi Software Gets Shipped: DreamBox 87 Rocketship Wins Five More Charters 91 Finding Karen Martinez It''s an Art 93 Achievement Gaps in Fabulous Silicon Valley? 99 District-Charters Compact Launched 101 Danner (and Reed Hastings) Discover DreamBox 103 Yet Another Boring Education Book? Not Exactly? 105 States Repeal Charter Restrictions (Okay, a Bribe Was Involved) 107 Fresh Charter Strategy from the Department of Education 109 Growing the High-Performing (and Blended) Charters 111 Double Setbacks Rocketship Changes Course 113 A Corporate Jet Packed with Movers and Shakers Touches Down 117 Leaders of Top Charters Tapped as State Commissioners 123 Top Charters to Get Stiff Test 125 Blended Learning Rocketship Style: This Stuff Works! 127 KIPP Opens Its One-Hundredth School 129 A Discovery That Would Lead to Big Changes (and Bigger Drama) 131 Rocketship Bids Big: Give Us Twenty More Charters in Santa Clara County 133 Setting Up Rocketship to Fail? 137 Rocketship Doubles Down on a Reinvention 141 One Million Rocketship Students by 2030? Not Happening 147 Rocketship and Unions: It''s Complicated; A Rocketship Teacher Sits down with a Union Leader--Her Mother 149 Early Fallout from Model Change 157 The Pushback Gets Real: The Fight over Tamien 159 Part IV: The Push to Expand outside San Jose Welcome to South Milwaukee 171 A Power Play Backfires 173 School Starts in Seven Months--but Only Three Sign-ups! 177 Danner Steps Down; Smith Steps Up 181 Milwaukee Gets a Shakeup 183 Stretching to Lure Top Charters: The San Antonio Story 187 Smith''s Worst Monday Ever 193 Exactly What Kind of a Difference Can a Fibonacci School Make? 199 Milwaukee Looking Up (a Bit) 201 Two Charters Make the Top Five List 205 If Rocketship Is the Digital Future Why Do Its Schools Look So Ordinary? 207 Fibonacci Developments in Massachusetts 211 More Progress in Milwaukee 213 A Day in the Life: Rocketship''s Flagship School, Mateo Sheedy 215 Fresh Turbulence in Milwaukee 225 Surprise Shift on TFA 233 Milwaukee Parents Name Their School: Southside Prep 237 Rumor Just In: Rocketship Falls through the Ice 241 A Fibonacci Charter Group Is Honored 243 Build, Measure, Learn Rinse, Repeat 245 One Month before Southside Prep Opens 251 How Many Sharon Kims Are out There? 253 Eva Makes Life Hard for Her Many Critics 263 Opening Week at Southside Prep 265 California Test Scores Released 267 Part V: The Future for Rocketship and Other High Performers Answering the Fibonacci Question: Will Rocketship Make It Big? 271 Fibonacci Charters Summoned to Memphis 279 Houston''s Spring Branch Schools: The Future? 287 Where''s the Tipping Point? 293 The Tennessee Launch 299 Conclusion 301 Acknowledgments 311 About the Author 313 Epilogue 315 Index 319
Synopsis
The face of American education is evolving--and the roadmap is clear On the Rocketship: How Top Charter Schools are Pushing the Envelope examines the rise and expansion of leading charter school network Rocketship, revealing the "secret sauce" that makes a successful program. A strong narrative with a timely message, the book explores how Rocketship started and the difficulties encountered as it expands. Designing schools for children who have been failed by traditional schools is extremely challenging work. Setbacks are inevitable. Later in the book the narrative shifts to the national picture, exploring how high performing charter schools are changing the education landscape in cities such as Denver, Memphis, and Houston. The book emerges just as charter schools are running into stiff political opposition in New York City and elsewhere. Even in San Jose, Rocketship's home base, the pushback against charter schools is gaining speed. On the Rocketship becomes a valuable resource for explaining what's at stake in this battle. Lose these schools, in New York, San Jose and other cities, and low-income and minority students lose their best shot at a quality education. Written by a veteran journalist who followed Rocketship through a school year, the book explores some of the factors that make Rocketship and other charters successful, including the blended learning that was pioneered at charter schools, especially Rocketship. Many schools around the country are looking to Rocketship as a model for implementing blended learning. The interplay between charter schools and blended learning is setting a change in motion, and the American education system is ready to evolve. On the Rocketship details this phenomenon, providing insights for educators across the nation.
LC Classification Number
LB2806.36.W545 2014

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