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When School Policies Backfire: How Well-Intended Measures Can Harm Our Most Vulnerable Students
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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. When School Policies Backfire draws our attention to education policies designed to help disadvantaged students that instead had the perverse effect of harming them. Editor(s): Gottfried, Michael A.; Conchas, Gilberto Q. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JNF; JNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Harvard Education Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United States
ISBN
9781612509082
SKU
V9781612509082
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About
Michael A. Gottfried is an associate professor in the Gevirtz School’s Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA and is on the editorial board of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. Gilberto Q. Conchas is a professor of educational policy and social context at the University of California, Irvine, USA and is the interim chair ... Read more
Reviews for When School Policies Backfire: How Well-Intended Measures Can Harm Our Most Vulnerable Students
"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." —James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief, Midwest Book Review "When School Policies Backfire provides, in a readable context, the need to analyze past policies and practices to understand that the best ideas do not always succeed nor do they ... Read more