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This book has won the 2014 Qualitative Book Award In the context of
debates about U.S. immigration, this book gives a voice to
undocumented Americans of Mexican origin - specifically,
involuntary immigrants born in Mexico but brought to the United
States by their parents as minors. They are indistinguishable from
other Americans, yet in the media and their everyday lives they
encounter racism, discrimination, ostracism, and castigation on a
regular basis. This book is about their stories and how, against
the odds, they offer resistance as they navigate across
ideological, historical, socio-economic, institutional and
educational borders, in an effort to carve out a life in U.S.
society. In constructing an evocative and powerful
counter-narrative the authors show how they ultimately worked with
artists of Mexican origin and community organizations to bring the
undocumented issue to performative and political life.
This book offers a unique record of the realities of parental
choice and competitive pressures on schools. On the basis of
research involving thousands of parents and eleven secondary
schools monitored over several years, it sets out: * empirical
findings on parents' preferences and experience of choice, how
schools respond to competitive pressures, and local dynamics of
quasi-markets * theoretical implications for understanding
quasi-markets in education and the public interest * implications
for educational policy, if schools are to be more responsive and
inequalities lessened The book provides insights into whether
pressures for choice and diversity are in the greater public
interest, or if they benefit only the few, and suggests a notion of
the public-market as a model for analysing public services.
This volume provides a unique insight into current understanding of a range of issues central to any analysis and evaluation of market-like systems in schooling, including: * Diversity and hierarchy amongst schools * Parental criteria for choosing schools * The differential impact on advantaged and disadvantaged families * National and international variations in educational policies * Rules and practices concerning school admissions Implications for future research and for educational policy are highlighted and the final chapter provides an overview of key themes and issues. This book will interest all those involved in educational policy, researchers, students, headteachers and other senior managers in schools.
This book offers a unique record of the realities of parental
choice and competitive pressures on schools. On the basis of
research involving thousands of parents and eleven secondary
schools monitored over several years, it sets out: * empirical
findings on parents' preferences and experience of choice, how
schools respond to competitive pressures, and local dynamics of
quasi-markets * theoretical implications for understanding
quasi-markets in education and the public interest * implications
for educational policy, if schools are to be more responsive and
inequalities lessened The book provides insights into whether
pressures for choice and diversity are in the greater public
interest, or if they benefit only the few, and suggests a notion of
the public-market as a model for analysing public services.
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