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Like medical practitioners, educators share the moral obligation to “first, do no harm.” But as this provocative volume shows, education policies do not always live up to this ideal, especially policies intended to help our most vulnerable students. When School Policies Backfire draws our attention to education policies designed to help disadvantaged students that instead had the perverse effect of harming them by exacerbating the very problems they were intended to solve. The rigorous case studies that make up the book are contributed by a diverse group of scholars with different methodological approaches. The cases address important areas of education reform, from literacy and technology programs to school closings, school choice, and accountability policies. Each case shows how and why a particular program backfired. Taken together, they present a wide-ranging critique of the kinds of policies that compose the cornerstones of current education reform efforts. Many books have examined policies that fall short of achieving their goals, or that result in unintended consequences. But few have documented the effects of policies whose failures have been so spectacular. When School Policies Backfire is a sobering reminder of the responsibility that policy makers and researchers bear for the well-being of our most vulnerable students.
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9781612509082 | Harvard Education Pr, April 26, 2016, cover price $66.00
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9781612509075 | Harvard Education Pr, April 26, 2016, cover price $33.00 | About this edition: Like medical practitioners, educators share the moral obligation to “first, do no harm.
In Cracks in the Schoolyard, Conchas challenges deficit models of schooling and turns school failure on its head. Going beyond presenting critical case studies of social inequality and education, this book features achievement cases that depict Latinos as active actors―not hopeless victims― in the quest for social and economic mobility. Chapters examine the ways in which college students, high school youth, English language learners, immigrant Latino parents, queer homeless youth, the children of Mexican undocumented immigrants, and undocumented immigrant youth all work in local settings to improve their quality of life and advocate for their families and communities. Taken together, these counternarratives will help educators and policymakers fill the cracks in the schoolyard that often create disparity and failure for youth and young adults. This powerful book examines: The processes that operate within and outside of school to push students out and keep them from thriving academically and socially. The patterns that exist among individuals―students, teachers, parents, and other caring adults―to resist failure and construct for school success. The role of case study methods in illuminating power, inequality, and success in education.
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9780807757048 | Teachers College Pr, November 24, 2015, cover price $80.00
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9780807757031 | Teachers College Pr, November 13, 2015, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: In Cracks in the Schoolyard, Conchas challenges deficit models of schooling and turns school failure on its head.
Product Description: This volume highlights issues of power, inequality, and resistance for Asian, African American, and Latino/a students in distinct U.S. and international contexts. Through a collection of case studies it links universal issues relating to inequality in education, such as Asian, Latino, and African American males in the inner-city neighborhoods, Latina teachers and single mothers in California, undocumented youth from Mexico and El Salvador, immigrant Morrocan youth in Spain, and immigrant Afro-Caribbean and Indian teenagers in New York and in London...read more
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9781138837881 | Routledge, April 10, 2015, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: This volume highlights issues of power, inequality, and resistance for Asian, African American, and Latino/a students in distinct U.
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9781412939331 | Corwin Pr, August 23, 2007, cover price $66.95 | About this edition: This sociological study examines small learning communities and small schools in two major urban cities and highlights the relationship between school culture, personalization, and student engagement.
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9781412939348 | Corwin Pr, August 23, 2007, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: This sociological study examines small learning communities and small schools in two major urban cities and highlights the relationship between school culture, personalization, and student engagement.
Through students’ own voices and perspectives, this book reveals how and why some racial minorities achieve academic success, despite limited opportunity. Based on the experiences of Black, Latino, and Vietnamese urban high school students, the author provides a revealing comparative analysis that offers insight into how schools can create opportunities and safe learning environments where youth acquire real goals, expectations, and tangible pathways for success. Offering alternatives to current practices and structures of inequality that plague educational systems throughout the nation, this sociologically informed book: Takes a rare look at urban school success stories, instead of those depicting failure. Explores the social processes that enable racial minority youth to escape the unequal structures of urban schooling to perform well in school. Focuses on youth’s interpretations and reactions to the schooling process to determine how schools can empower youth and promote the social mobility of low-income urban populations.
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9780807746615 | Teachers College Pr, January 1, 2006, cover price $56.00 | About this edition: Through students’ own voices and perspectives, this book reveals how and why some racial minorities achieve academic success, despite limited opportunity.
Paperback:
9780807746608 | Teachers College Pr, January 31, 2006, cover price $27.95
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