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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 -- How equity and social justice urban education choice campaigns in Detroit are masquerading backfire and the worsening the status quo / Cassie J. Brownell -- When policies that impact students with significant disabilities in Michigan backfire / Mark E. Deschaine -- When zero-tolerance discipline policies in the United States backfire / Hugh Potter and Brian Boggs -- When free schools in England and charter schools in the United States backfire / Graham Downes and Catherine A. Simon -- When high-stakes accountability measures impact promising practices in an indigenous-serving charter school / V. Anthony-Stevens -- How public-private partnerships contribute to educational policy failure / Frank Fernandez, Karla I. Loya, and Leticia Oseguera -- The failure of accountability in the Milwaukee parental choice program / Michael R. Ford & William Velez -- How centralized implementation policies failed the Austrian new middle school process / Corinna Geppert -- The unintended consequences of school vouchers : rise, rout and rebirth / Aaron Saiger -- Challenges and unintended consequences of student centered learning / Lea Hubbard and Amanda Datnow -- School discipline policies that result in unintended consequences for Latino male students' college aspirations / Adrian H. Huerta, Shannon M. Calderone, and Patricia M. McDonough -- When special education policy in Ontario create unintended consequences / Lauren Jervis and Sue Winton -- Latina/o farm-worker parent leadership retreats as sites of agency, community cultural wealth, and success / Pedro E. Nava and Argelia Lara -- Bilingual and biliterate skills as cross-cultural competence success / Ricardo González-Carriedo and Alexandra Babino -- Diversity-driven charters and the construction of urban school success / Priscilla Wohlstetter, Amy K. Wang, and Matthew M. Gonzales -- Reflecting on the institutional processes for college success among Chicanos in the context of crisis / Louie F. Rodríguez, Eduardo Mosqueda, Pedro E. Nava, & Gilberto Q. Conchas

"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." --

This case study explores how a community-based truancy prevention program mediates against absenteeism, truancy, and dropping out and positively transforms the lives of Black and Latina/Latino middle school youth. Findings suggest that community—school partnerships are critical in the quest to combat truancy and the alarming dropout rate among urban youth. This study also shows how committed individuals can work to engage and empower low-income urban youth who are disengaged from school. Extensive interviews and observations with Latina/Latino and Black youth demonstrate how the intervention program mediates against social and academic failure. Using grounded theory, this article explores four student-identified dimensions that impact his/her (re)engagement with school: (a) the importance of space that promotes peer relations, (b) incentive structures within programs, (c) the need for social networks, and (d) youth advocacy as a mechanism for institutional accountability. Implications for combating truancy, reducing dropout, and promoting student engagement are discussed.

AbstractVietnamese students must contend with the burden of the myth of being a model minority. As a result of adults' high expectations of them, Vietnamese youth receive structural and ideological advantages over other nonwhite racial groups. Further, the students themselves reinforce the model minority image as they attempt to attain educational mobility. The authors examine the role of two distinct school contexts within the same school that shape the academic outcomes of Vietnamese students contending with the pressures of being considered members of the model minority.

Verlagsinfo: "The Complex Web of Inequality in North American Schools analyzes and challenges the critical gaps and inequalities that persist in the American school system. Showing how historical biases have been inherited in current polices relating to non-dominant youth, the text calls for educational reforms that perform in the name of social justice. This edited collection carefully interrogates how technocratic educational policies and reforms are often unequipped to address the interplay of political, social, economic, ideological factors that are at the roots of educational injustice. Considering the most vulnerable student populations, original case studies explore how inadequate structures, practices, and beliefs have increased marginalization, and highlight those instances in which policy has proved effective in reducing opportunity gaps between economically rich and poor students; between white, Asian, Black and Latino youth; between native English speakers and second language learners; highlighting racial integration and unequal American Indian education; and for students with special educational needs. The insights into such policies shed light on the complex web of historically embedded inequities that continue to shape the construction, roll-out, and consequences of education policy for the most marginalized youth populations today. This volume will be of interest to graduate, and postgraduate students, researchers and academics in the fields of education policy, sociology of education, economics of education, and history of education, and well as policy evaluation"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Identity Development -- 1. Hmong American Masculinities -- 2. Frames of Self -- 3. Boys in Men's Clothing -- 4. A Relational Perspective on Adolescent Boys' Identity Development -- Part II. Family Relationships -- 5. Experiences of Trust with Parents -- 6. Psychological Well-Being, School Adjustment, and Problem Behavior among Chinese Adolescent Boys from Poor Families -- 7. The Role of Father Support in the Prediction of Suicidal Ideation among Black Adolescent Males -- Part III. Friends and Peers -- 8. Intimacy, Desire, and Distrust in the Friendships of Adolescent Boys -- 9. Peer Relationships among Chinese Boys -- 10. The Influence of Peer Experiences on Bravado Attitudes among African American Males -- Part IV. Sexuality and Romantic Relationships -- 11. Getting Close, Staying Cool -- 12. Adolescent Boys' Heterosexual Behavior -- 13. Boy-on-Boy Sexuality -- Part V. Schooling -- 14. Immigrant Boys' Experiences in U.S. Schools -- 15. Understanding the Exceptions -- 16. From Preschool to Middle School -- About the Contributors -- Index