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Much has been written about how public schools in the United States are funded. However, missing in the current literature landscape is a nuanced discussion of funding as it relates to public charter schools. This text, authored by researchers and professionals working in the charter school world, provides readers with a comprehensive overview of issues related to the funding and operation of charter schools.The book opens with an introduction to charter schools and how they are funded. The financial management and oversight of charter schools and issues related to funding equity, including how charter schools impact district school finances, are addressed. Special considerations for charter schools related to serving special education students and transportation issues are also addressed. After reading this book, readers will have a thorough understanding of how charter schools are funded and managed financially.

Philosophy as Disability and Exclusion examines the history of ideas on arts in the education of people who are blind in England, from 1688 to 2010. This book also examines a number of the earlier influences on the enlightenment, and the international context of this topic. The two hypotheses on which this study is based are:(1) Our understanding of blindness in English intellectual culture is less to do with homologous physical characteristics. Instead it is more to do with an ethical philosophy of human capacity.(2) The arts education of people who are blind through touch tells us much about our psychology of mythologies and the intellectual construction of human thought. Furthermore, the myth that people who are blind are incapable of visual arts and have an enhanced capacity for the musical arts is one of the most engrained modern folklores. It is part of our cultural, intellectual and philosophical conscience.In the process of investigating these hypotheses, this book argues that philosophies have linked immorality, intelligence and physical ability. These have become connected in ways that are unrelated to eyesight in order to fulfill broader cultural processes of developing social theory. In this book, the process of knowledge creation is termed passive exclusion and is analyzed through an epistemological model of examining disability and exclusion.

Leadership and School Quality is the twelfth in a series on research and theory dedicated to advancing our understanding of schools through empirical study and theoretical analysis. Hence, the chapters include analyses that investigate relationships between school organizations and leadership behaviors that have an impact on teacher and school effectiveness.

Creativity is a hot topic in education. As such, there is no shortage of insights or suggestionsfor how teachers might incorporate creativity into their curriculum. Wadingthrough these suggestions can, however, be quite daunting. This is because many ofthese suggestions imply that teachers need to somehow radically change their approachto teaching, adopt a new curriculum, or add-on to their existing curriculum. Consequently,many teachers feel that such changes are not feasible and may even come at thecost of supporting students' academic learning.This book provides an alternative. Teachers need not adopt a new curriculum, radicallychange what they are already doing, or attempt to add more to their already overflowingplate of curricular responsibilities. Rather, teaching for and with creativity is often more about doing what one is alreadydoing, only slightly better.The aim of this book is to help teachers understand how they can make slight changes to their own teaching, which can substantiallysupport the development of students' creative potential and result in a more creative approach to teaching. Theinsights and practical suggestions presented in this book represent some of the newest and most promising work being donein the field of creativity studies. This book is unique in that it presents teachers with concrete ideas for how to simultaneouslysupport creativity and learning. A particularly novel feature of this book is that it offers a blend of theoretical insightsand vivid classroom examples to illustrate the kinds of opportunities and challengesthat teachers face when they attempt to teach for and with creativity. As such, thisbook will provide teachers, scholars, researchers, and anyone interested in classroomcreativity with new directions for future research and educational practice.

A volume in International PsychologySeries Editors: Uwe P. Gielen, Senel Poyrazli, and Harold Takooshian(sponsored by APA International Psychology Division, Division 52)This book provides a global overview of pioneers in international psychologywith contributions from distinguished authors from representative nations aroundthe world. Chapters offer biographical profiles describing the personal historiesand professional contributions of leading figures in psychology from across theglobe that represent the diversity of psychology. This volume can serve as a coreor supplemental text for a broad range of courses in Psychology, InternationalStudies, and Education, with particular interest to those teaching international psychology, cross-culturalpsychology, and history of psychology.

The Quarterly Review of Distance Education is a rigorously refereed journal publishing articles, research briefs, reviews, and editorials dealing with the theories, research, and practices of distance education. The Quarterly Review publishes articles that utilize various methodologies that permit generalizable results which help guide the practice of the field of distance education in the public and private sectors. The Quarterly Review publishes full-length manuscripts as well as research briefs, editorials, reviews of programs and scholarly works, and columns. The Quarterly Review defines distance education as institutionally-based formal education in which the learning group is separated and interactive technologies are used to unite the learning group.

The Quarterly Review of Distance Education is a rigorously refereed journal publishing articles, research briefs, reviews, and editorials dealing with the theories, research, and practices of distance education. The Quarterly Review publishes articles that utilize various methodologies that permit generalizable results which help guide the practice of the field of distance education in the public and private sectors. The Quarterly Review publishes full-length manuscripts as well as research briefs, editorials, reviews of programs and scholarly works, and columns. The Quarterly Review defines distance education as institutionally-based formal education in which the learning group is separated and interactive technologies are used to unite the learning group.

The Quarterly Review of Distance Education is a rigorously refereed journal publishing articles, research briefs, reviews, and editorials dealing with the theories, research, and practices of distance education. The Quarterly Review publishes articles that utilize various methodologies that permit generalizable results which help guide the practice of the field of distance education in the public and private sectors. The Quarterly Review publishes full-length manuscripts as well as research briefs, editorials, reviews of programs and scholarly works, and columns. The Quarterly Review defines distance education as institutionally-based formal education in which the learning group is separated and interactive technologies are used to unite the learning group.

The Quarterly Review of Distance Education is a rigorously refereed journal publishing articles, research briefs, reviews, and editorials dealing with the theories, research, and practices of distance education. The Quarterly Review publishes articles that utilize various methodologies that permit generalizable results which help guide the practice of the field of distance education in the public and private sectors. The Quarterly Review publishes full-length manuscripts as well as research briefs, editorials, reviews of programs and scholarly works, and columns. The Quarterly Review defines distance education as institutionally-based formal education in which the learning group is separated and interactive technologies are used to unite the learning group.

Middle Grades Research Journal is a refereed, peer reviewed journal that publishes original studies providing both empirical and theoretical frameworks that focus on middle grades education. A variety of articles are published quarterly in March, June, September, and December of each volume year.