On the rocketship : how top charter schools are pushing the envelope /

On the rocketship : how top charter schools are pushing the envelope /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Whitmire, Richard, author.
Edition:First edition.
Imprint:San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [2014]
Description:ix, 334 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Charter schools -- United States.
Charter schools -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee -- Case studies.
Charter schools.
United States.
Wisconsin -- Milwaukee.
Case studies.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10081411
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ISBN:9781118607640 (hardback)
1118607643 (hardback)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"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)"--
Other form:Online version: Whitmire, Richard. On the rocketship First edition. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 2014 9781118611265
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Players
  • Rocketship Finally Launches outside California
  • John Danner
  • Preston Smith
  • Darmer's Big Pivot
  • Part II. The Startup Years
  • A Charter Fund Designed to Nurture Top CMOs
  • Did the Butterfly Effect Give "Wings to Rocketship?
  • Hurricane Katrina
  • Startup Meets Smokestack
  • Sci-Fi-Inspired Software
  • Joel Klein Does the Unexpected
  • Recruiting the Key (Outside) Players
  • The Hard Sell: Pitching the First Rocketship
  • Opening Mateo Sheedy: Tough Times
  • NewSchools Launches Charter Accelerator Fund II
  • How to Build a Fibonacci School
  • Part III. The Growth Years
  • The Ideal Personnel Department? Not within Rocketship
  • Alum Rock Rejects Rocketship ... Is That a Bad Thing?
  • Rocketship Finds a Friend
  • Charter School Growth Fund Puts Rocketship on the Map
  • Slivka's Sci-Fi Software Gets Shipped: DreamBox
  • Rocketship Wins Five More Charters
  • Finding Karen Martinez ... It's an Art
  • Achievement Gaps in Fabulous Silicon Valley?
  • District-Charters Compact Launched
  • Dinner (and Reed Hastings) Discover DreamBox
  • Yet Another Boring Education Book? Not Exactly?
  • States Repeal Charter Restrictions (Okay, a Bribe Was Involved)
  • Fresh Charter Strategy from the Department of Education
  • Growing the High-Performing (and Blended) Charters
  • Double Setbacks ... Rocketship Changes Course
  • A Corporate Jet Packed with Movers and Shakers Touches Down
  • Leaders of Top Charters Tapped as State Commissioners
  • Top Charters to Get Stiff Test
  • Blended Learning Rocketship Style: This Stuff Works!
  • KJPP Opens Its One-Hundredth School
  • A Discovery That Would Lead to Big Changes (and Bigger Drama)
  • Rocketship Bids Big: Give Us Twenty More Charters in Santa Clara County
  • Setting Up Rocketship to Fail?
  • Rocketship Doubles Down on a Reinvention
  • One Million Rocketship Students by 2030? Nor Happening
  • Rocketship and Unions: It's Complicated; A Rocketship Teachei Sits down with a Union Leader-Her Mother
  • Early Fallout from Model Change
  • The Pushback Gets Real: The Fight over Tamien
  • Part IV. The Push to Expand Outside San Jose
  • Welcome to South Milwaukee
  • A Power Play Backfires
  • School Starts in Seven Months-but Only Three Sign-Ups!
  • Danner Steps Down; Smith Steps Up
  • Milwaukee Gets a Shakeup
  • Stretching to Lure Top Charters: The San Antonio Story
  • Smith's Worst Monday Ever
  • Exactly What Kind of a Difference Can a Fibonacci School Make?
  • Milwaukee Looking Up (a Bit)
  • Two Charters Make the Top Five List
  • If Rocketship Is the Digital Future Why Do Its Schools Look So Ordinary?
  • Fibonacci Developments in Massachusetts
  • More Progress in Milwaukee
  • A Day in the Life: Rocketship's Flagship School, Mateo Sheedy
  • Fresh Turbulence in Milwaukee
  • Surprise Shift on TFA
  • Milwaukee Parents Name Their School: Southside Prep
  • Rumor Just In: Rocketship Falls through the Ice
  • A Fibonacci Charter Group Is Honored
  • Build. Measure, Learn ... Rinse, Repeat
  • One Month before Southside Prep Opens
  • How Many Sharon Kims Are out There?
  • Eva Makes life Hard for Her Many Critics
  • Opening Week at Southside Prep
  • California Test Scores Released
  • Part V. The Future for Rocketship and Other High Performers
  • Answering the Fibonacci Question: Will Rocketship Make It Big?
  • Fibonacci Charters Summoned to Memphis
  • Houston's Spring Branch Schools: The Future?
  • Where's the Tipping Point?
  • The Tennessee Launch
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Author
  • Epilogue
  • Index
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