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When Education Policy Backfires and What We Can Learn
Tue, April 12, 10:35am to 12:05pm, Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Room 149 BSession Type: Symposium
Abstract
Over past decades, we have seen an influx of state and educational policies being implemented to reduce educational gaps and promote access and success. Yet, it has been the case that many of these schooling policies have backfired. That is, policies that were explicitly intended to reduce educational gaps through changes in schooling structures and practices have indeed caused the reverse effect – a widening of the gaps that they had indeed set out to close. This session represents a unique opportunity to present a multifaceted, multidisciplinary examination of instances when educational policymaking and practice do not converge. This session takes a critical look at these policies, why they backfired, and what we can learn.
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What Is School Policy Backfire? - Cameron Sublett, University of California - Santa Barbara; Odelia Simon, University of California - Santa Barbara
Reading Between the Lines: Uncovering and Understanding the Backfire of a Middle School Literacy Intervention - Shaun Michael Dougherty, University of Connecticut
When Minimum Grading Policies Backfire: How Can We Transform the Politics of Failure? - Martha Abele Mac Iver, Johns Hopkins University
Rescue Mission: The Effects of a School Closure on Displaced Students - Matthew Newman Gaertner, SRI Internatinal; Ben R. Kirshner, University of Colorado - Boulder; Kristen Margaret Pozzoboni, San Francisco State University
Elusive Equity: The Limits of High School Choice in New York City - Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj, Seton Hall University