Educational Policy Goes to School

<p>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. Although policy reform is thought of as an effective way to improve schooling structures and to diminish the achievement gap, many such attempts to reform the system do not adequately address the legacy of unequal policies and the historic and pervasive inequalities that persist in schools. Exploring the roots of school inequality and examining often-ignored negative policy outcomes, contributors illuminate the causes and consequences of poor policymaking decisions and demonstrate how policies can backfire, fail, or have unintended success. </p> <p>Chapter 1: Introduction: Conceptualizing the Intricacies that are Concomitant in Educational Policy Making that Determine Success, Backfire and Everything in Between </p><p>Leticia Oseguera, Miguel Abad, Jacob Kirksey, Briana Hinga, Gilberto Conchas, and Michael Gottfried </p><p></p><p>Part 1: Backfire</p><p></p><p>Chapter 2: How Equity and Social Justice Urban Education Choice Campaigns in Detroit are Masquerading Backfire and the Worsening the Status Quo </p><p>Cassie J. Brownell</p><p></p><p>Chapter 3: When Policies that Impact Students with Significant Disabilities in Michigan Backfire</p><p>Mark E. Deschaine </p><p></p><p>Chapter 4: When Zero-Tolerance Discipline Policies in the United States Backfire</p><p>Hugh Potter and Brian Boggs </p><p></p><p>Chapter 5: When Free Schools in England and Charter Schools in the United States Backfire</p><p>Graham Downes and Catherine A. Simon </p><p></p><p>Part 2: Failure </p><p></p><p>Chapter 6: When High-Stakes Accountability Measures Impact Promising Practices in an Indigenous-serving Charter School</p><p>V. Anthony-Stevens </p><p></p><p>Chapter 7: How Public-Private Partnerships Contribute to Educational Policy Failure</p><p>Frank Fernandez, Karla I. Loya, and Leticia Oseguera </p><p></p><p>Chapter 8: The Failure of Accountability in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program</p><p>Michael R. Ford & William Velez </p><p></p><p>Chapter 9: How Centralized Implementation Policies Failed the Austrian New Middle School Process</p><p>Corinna Geppert </p><p></p><p>Part 3: Unintended</p><p></p><p>Chapter 10: The Unintended Consequences of School Vouchers: Rise, Rout and Rebirth</p><p>Aaron Saiger </p><p></p><p>Chapter 11: Challenges and Unintended Consequences of Student Centered Learning </p><p>Lea Hubbard and Amanda Datnow</p><p></p><p>Chapter 12: School Discipline Policies That Result in Unintended Consequences for Latino Male Students’ College Aspirations</p><p>Adrian H. Huerta, Sha</p>