When school policies backfire : how well-intended measures can harm our most vulnerable students /
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 ho...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard Education Press,
[2016]
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 161250907X 9781612509075 9781612509082 1612509088 |