Böcker av Liane Brouillette

Focuses on the contribution that visual art, drama, music, and dance can make to student literacy and understanding of content-area reading assignments. Focusing on those areas where students tend to struggle, the author helps K-5 teachers provide an age-appropriate curriculum that is accessible to an increasingly diverse student population.

Investigates the strengths & limitations of charter & magnet schools as an approach to reform by focusing on the day-to-day reality of students, teachers, administrators, & parents involved with charter and magnet schools. A case study approach is used.

This work takes the reader into the charter school movement, answering such questions as: what is a charter school?; how are charter schools different from other public schools?; what does it take to create a charter school?; and what motivates the people who initiate such schools?