1st Edition

Educational Policy Goes to School Case Studies on the Limitations and Possibilities of Educational Innovation

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

Educational policies explicitly implemented in order to reduce educational gaps and promote access and success for disenfranchised youth can backfire—and often have the unintended result of widening those gaps. In this interdisciplinary collection of case studies, contributors examine cases of policy backfire, when policies don’t work, have unintended consequences, and when policies help.... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction: Conceptualizing the Intricacies that are Concomitant in Educational Policy Making that Determine Success, Backfire and Everything in Between



Leticia Oseguera, Miguel Abad, Jacob Kirksey, Briana Hinga, Gilberto Conchas, and Michael Gottfried



Part 1: Backfire



Chapter 2: How Equity and Social Justice Urban Education Choice Campaigns in Detroit are Masquerading Backfire and the Worsening the Status Quo



Cassie J. Brownell



Chapter 3: When Policies that Impact Students with Significant Disabilities in Michigan Backfire



Mark E. Deschaine



Chapter 4: When Zero-Tolerance Discipline Policies in the United States Backfire



Hugh Potter and Brian Boggs



Chapter 5: When Free Schools in England and Charter Schools in the United States Backfire



Graham Downes and Catherine A. Simon



Part 2: Failure



Chapter 6: When High-Stakes Accountability Measures Impact Promising Practices in an Indigenous-serving Charter School



V. Anthony-Stevens



Chapter 7: How Public-Private Partnerships Contribute to Educational Policy Failure



Frank Fernandez, Karla I. Loya, and Leticia Oseguera



Chapter 8: The Failure of Accountability in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program



Michael R. Ford & William Velez



Chapter 9: How Centralized Implementation Policies Failed the Austrian New Middle School Process



Corinna Geppert



Part 3: Unintended



Chapter 10: The Unintended Consequences of School Vouchers: Rise, Rout and Rebirth



Aaron Saiger



Chapter 11: Challenges and Unintended Consequences of Student Centered Learning



Lea Hubbard and Amanda Datnow



Chapter 12: School Discipline Policies That Result in Unintended Consequences for Latino Male Students’ College Aspirations



Adrian H. Huerta, Sha

Biography

Gilberto Q. Conchas is Professor of Educational Policy and Social Context, University of California, Irvine, USA.



Michael A. Gottfried is Assistant Professor of Education Policy, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.



Briana M. Hinga is Assistant Professor of Clinical Education, University of Southern California, USA.



Leticia Oseguera is an Associate Professor of Higher Education at the Pennsylvania State University, USA.