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""Iris Rotberg and Joshua Glazer have assembled a thought-provoking and timely volume on the topic of charter schools' impact on diversity in education. The heterogeneity of a school's student body is considered in terms of many different dimensions, including race, ethnicity, income, disability status, English language proficiency, culture, and religion, setting the stage for future research studies to continue tracking whether traditional public and public charter schools are becoming isolated along these lines. The contributing authors tackle tough questions, such as whether charter schools do an adequate job of supporting and serving students with special educational needs, the ways in which a school's approach to student discipline can shape the composition of its student body, and the financial impact of chartering on district schools with significant fixed costs. A strength of the book's approach is that the various contributors consider this issue at the intersection of other contemporary education reforms, including personalized learning models enabled by education technology and the 'achievement school district' model, which has been implemented in Tennessee, North Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Nevada."" -- ""Teachers College Record"" ""Readers across the political spectrum, both supporters and critics of charter schools, can use Choosing Charters to inform public policy about the ways in which charters affect diversity and inequality and the potential to devise policies that mitigate the most troublesome social costs of charter schools."" -- ""Sir Read A Lot""

"""Readers across the political spectrum, both supporters and critics of charter schools, can use Choosing Charters to inform public policy about the ways in which charters affect diversity and inequality and the potential to devise policies that mitigate the most troublesome social costs of charter schools."" --Sir Read A Lot ""Iris Rotberg and Joshua Glazer have assembled a thought-provoking and timely volume on the topic of charter schools' impact on diversity in education. The heterogeneity of a school's student body is considered in terms of many different dimensions, including race, ethnicity, income, disability status, English language proficiency, culture, and religion, setting the stage for future research studies to continue tracking whether traditional public and public charter schools are becoming isolated along these lines. The contributing authors tackle tough questions, such as whether charter schools do an adequate job of supporting and serving students with special educational needs, the ways in which a school's approach to student discipline can shape the composition of its student body, and the financial impact of chartering on district schools with significant fixed costs. A strength of the book's approach is that the various contributors consider this issue at the intersection of other contemporary education reforms, including personalized learning models enabled by education technology and the 'achievement school district' model, which has been implemented in Tennessee, North Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Nevada."" --Teachers College Record"

"""Iris Rotberg and Joshua Glazer have assembled a thought-provoking and timely volume on the topic of charter schools' impact on diversity in education. The heterogeneity of a school's student body is considered in terms of many different dimensions, including race, ethnicity, income, disability status, English language proficiency, culture, and religion, setting the stage for future research studies to continue tracking whether traditional public and public charter schools are becoming isolated along these lines. The contributing authors tackle tough questions, such as whether charter schools do an adequate job of supporting and serving students with special educational needs, the ways in which a school's approach to student discipline can shape the composition of its student body, and the financial impact of chartering on district schools with significant fixed costs. A strength of the book's approach is that the various contributors consider this issue at the intersection of other contemporary education reforms, including personalized learning models enabled by education technology and the 'achievement school district' model, which has been implemented in Tennessee, North Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Nevada."" --Teachers College Record Readers across the political spectrum, both supporters and critics of charter schools, can use Choosing Charters to inform public policy about the ways in which charters affect diversity and inequality and the potential to devise policies that mitigate the most troublesome social costs of charter schools. --Sir Read A Lot"

Iris Rotberg and Joshua Glazer have assembled a thought-provoking and timely volume on the topic of charter schools' impact on diversity in education. --Teachers College Record

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Iris C. Rotberg is a research professor of education policy and Joshua L. Glazer is an associate professor of education policy. They are both at the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at The George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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