Harvard University Press
Berkeley public policy professor Bruce Fuller edited this collection of mostly skeptical essays about charter schools. He also penned the two bookend essays himself, and they're fairly thoughtful. Between them you'll find six case studies of charter schools that, Fuller claims, "capture the breadth of the movement, replete with all its beauty marks and warts." While I believe most of the authors were more alert to warts than dimples, the school profiles are evocative and often discerning. They also help evoke the complexity and diversity of charter schools. 284 pages long, its ISBN is 0-674-00325-X. Harvard University Press is the publisher. Its web address is www.hup.harvard.edu.
