Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-200) and index.
Contents:
What can we learn from policy backfire? / Cameron Sublett. When good policies go bad / Michael A. Gottfried, Gilberto Q. Conchas, Cameron Sublett, and Odelia Simon -- When targeted interventions backfire: how middle school literacy intervention created achievement gaps / Shaun M. Dougherty -- When accountability policies backfire: why summer learning loss affects student test scores / Andrew McEachin and Allison Atteberry -- When minimum grading policies backfire: who decides whether to let students fail? / Martha Abele Mac Iver -- When school closures backfire: what happened to the students at Jefferson High School? / Matthew N. Gaertner, Ben Kirshner, and Kristen M. Pozzoboni -- When school choices backfire: why new options for parents can become new barriers to equity / Carolyn Sattin-Bjaj -- When technology programs backfire: how one laptop per child taught Birmingham a "costly lesson" / Morgan G. Ames, Mark Warshauer, and Shelia R. Cootten -- What can we learn from policy backfire? / Michael A Gottfried, Gilberto Q. Conchas, Odelia Simon, and Cameron Sublett.
Summary:
"When School Policies Backfire focuses on education policies designed to help disadvantaged students that instead had the perverse effect of exacerbating the very problems they were intended to solve. The book features rigorous case studies addressing important areas of education reform, and shows how and why each intervention backfired. It offers a sobering reminder of the responsibility that policy makers and researchers bear for the well-being of our most vulnerable students." -- back cover.
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