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First-year evaluation findings from the University of California, Irvine Department of Education's Certificate in After-School Education (CASE) program are reported in this paper. The goal of CASE is to promote positive youth development in diverse learners through education and training of the after-school workforce. CASE blends instruction across five, 10-week long courses with 70+ hours of fieldwork in local after-school programs (ASPs). CASE course and fieldwork enrollment, perceived understanding of course material, multicultural education, and civic interests and engagement were measured through student surveys. Students in CASE courses report higher levels of perceived course understanding (p < .01), civic responsibility (p < .01) and empowerment (p < .05) than students in the non-CASE courses. Students enrolled in CASE courses requiring fieldwork report greater perceived course understanding (p < .01) and academic engagement (p < .01) than CASE students without fieldwork. The findings suggest the program is achieving several of its early goals.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Conceptualizing the Intricacies that are Concomitant in Educational Policymaking that Determine Success, Backfire, and Everything in Between -- 2 How Urban Education Choice Campaigns in Detroit Masqueraded as Equity and Social Justice and Worsened the Status Quo -- 3 When Policies that Impact Students with Significant Disabilities in Michigan Backfire -- 4 When Zero-Tolerance Discipline Policies in the United States Backfire -- 5 When Free Schools in England and Charter Schools in the United States Backfire -- 6 When High-Stakes Accountability Measures Impact Promising Practices in an Indigenous-Serving Charter School -- 7 How Public-Private Partnerships Contribute to Educational Policy Failure -- 8 The Failure of Accountability in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program -- 9 How Centralized Implementation Policies Failed the Austrian New Middle School Process -- 10 The Unintended Consequences of School Vouchers: Rise, Rout, and Rebirth -- 11 Challenges and Unintended Consequences of Student-Centered Learning -- 12 School Discipline Policies That Result in Unintended Consequences for Latino Male Students' College Aspirations -- 13 When Special Education Policy in Ontario Creates Unintended Consequences -- 14 Latina/o Farmworker Parent Leadership Retreats as Sites of Agency, Community Cultural Wealth, and Success -- 15 Bilingual and Biliterate Skills as Cross-Cultural Competence Success -- 16 Diversity-Driven Charters and the Construction of Urban School Success -- 17 Reflecting on the Institutional Processes for College Success Among Chicanos in the Context of Crisis -- 18 Reframing the Problematic Achievement Gap Narrative to Structure Educational Success -- Contributor Bios -- Index

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"--