02672nam a2200361 4500 000024629 21117 20161215141202.0 161215s2014 engsd 9781118607640 (hardback) eng 371.050973 WH-R Whitmire, Richard. (Laura Ann) On the rocketship how top charter schools are pushing the envelope Richard Whitmire First edition. San Francisco Jossey-Bass 2014. ix, 334 p. color illustrations 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. "Veteran journalist Richard Whitmire follows Rocketship through the school year and into the following year, when the nationally acclaimed charter school network launches new schools in Milwaukee. While Rocketship's story provides the narrative spine, the book also covers developments as other high quality charter organizations bid to reshape urban education in America. In 2012, charter school students made up only 5 percent of the total student population, but those numbers were growing fast and have huge impacts in the urban areas. As The New York Times recently pointed out, charter enrollment explains most of the enrollment declines in traditional schools in cities such as Chicago and Los Angeles.In this book, Whitmire will also explore one core innovation at Rocketship: its successful blended learning program. Rocketship's Learning Lab is where students spend two hours a day in computer-driven instruction powered by carefully selected software. This "blended learning" approach--Learning Lab blended with in-class instruction where teachers coordinate closely with the Lab--cuts expenses by 25 percent. Rocketship uses that extra money to fund longer school hours and higher teacher salaries. Today many schools around the country look to Rocketship as a model for using blended learning (many try to use blended learning, but few succeed)"-- |c Provided by publisher. Charter schools United States Charter schools Case studies Wisconsin Milwaukee Education 1978- 1906-1998. 1952- 1974- LSP UDN50 LSP 371.050973 WH-R available Error 5001 Not defined in file expand_doc_bib_avail. 1 0 N 0 1 From the UDN01 UDN50 LSP 371.050973 WH-R available Error 5001 Not defined in file expand_doc_bib_avail. 1 0 N 0 1 Monograph Printed language Mạng thư viện Đại học Đà Nẵng