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Schools of Opportunity builds an argument for shifting the way that
excellent schools are recognized and built. The National Education
Policy Center's Schools of Opportunity project was designed to
highlight public high schools that are using research-based
practices for closing opportunity gaps in student learning. The
project recognizes schools working to address the needs of all
students, whether or not those schools have high average test
scores. This approach thus embraces a shift away from the nation's
myopic focus on outcomes. This follows from research findings that
schools alone cannot fix the problems created by the stark
inequalities in our society. Instead, schools should be expected to
do their part by responding to inequities with research-based
practices. With these shifts in mind, this book provides case
studies of schools that demonstrate key criteria that other schools
can emulate, such as an inclusive school climate, support for
language-minority students, performance-based assessment, teacher
professionalism, a commitment to detracking, and supports for
students in need. Book Features: Provides accounts of school
reform, jointly told by researcher–practitioner teams, connecting
current research with successful efforts of educators to create
outstanding learning environments. Brings together the voices of
principals and school leaders who share stories of how their work
has unfolded in their school, district, and state contexts.
Identifies the school leadership and teacher practices that close
opportunity gaps for student learning, and what it takes to
implement them.
Containing over 25 percent new content and two completely revised
chapters, this updated casebook addresses legal and public policy
issues affecting K-12 as well as higher education. The book
includes 57 original hypotheticals, extensive material on
technology-related issues, and a strong focus on equal access to
quality education. Topical coverage includes campus safety and the
criminal justice system, sexual harassment and assault, the rights
of educators, bilingual education, disability rights law,
race-conscious remedies, religion in the schools, LGBT-related
controversies, gender equity, free speech and expression, and
expanded coverage of privacy law issues, the school-to-prison
pipeline, cyber-bullying, the Every Student Succeeds Act, the
ongoing battle over K-12 teacher tenure rights, charter school
legal issues, and the embattled rights of undocumented students.
This authoritative book examines the long-standing campaign that
resulted in today's school voucher policies. Advocates of private
school vouchers promulgated a vision of service to low-income
families, students of color, and other marginalized student
populations. Vouchers were sold as a way to advance civil rights.
But as voucher policies grew in size and became an element of
Republican orthodoxy, they evolved into subsidies for a broad swath
of advantaged families, with minimal antidiscrimination
protections. The approach also transmuted into forms like education
savings account programs and vouchers funded through tax-credited
donations. In this book, scholars and national experts untangle
this complex story to show how law and policy have aligned to
dramatically alter the likely future of American schooling. They
offer recommendations for modifying current policies with the goal
of capturing more of the originally stated vision of voucher
programs—equitable access to quality schooling, protection of all
students' civil rights, and advancement of the wider societal goals
of a democratic educational system. Book Features: Shows how a
fast-growing policy is transforming education in the United States
in ways that are very different from how that policy was sold to
the public. Sets the stage with a discussion of the history and
legal dimensions of voucher battles, as well as the politics of
policy change. Examines the basic structure of contemporary private
schooling, the Southern history of vouchers, and the key federal
court decisions that have opened the door to an explosion of state
legislation. Offers profiles of voucher policies in two states that
have made the largest efforts to support vouchers, as well as the
only nationally funded program in the nation's capital. Edited by
three scholars with extensive experience in the study of school
choice, with chapters by national experts who have produced seminal
work in the field.
This authoritative book examines the long-standing campaign that
resulted in today's school voucher policies. Advocates of private
school vouchers promulgated a vision of service to low-income
families, students of color, and other marginalized student
populations. Vouchers were sold as a way to advance civil rights.
But as voucher policies grew in size and became an element of
Republican orthodoxy, they evolved into subsidies for a broad swath
of advantaged families, with minimal antidiscrimination
protections. The approach also transmuted into forms like education
savings account programs and vouchers funded through tax-credited
donations. In this book, scholars and national experts untangle
this complex story to show how law and policy have aligned to
dramatically alter the likely future of American schooling. They
offer recommendations for modifying current policies with the goal
of capturing more of the originally stated vision of voucher
programs—equitable access to quality schooling, protection of all
students' civil rights, and advancement of the wider societal goals
of a democratic educational system. Book Features: Shows how a
fast-growing policy is transforming education in the United States
in ways that are very different from how that policy was sold to
the public. Sets the stage with a discussion of the history and
legal dimensions of voucher battles, as well as the politics of
policy change. Examines the basic structure of contemporary private
schooling, the Southern history of vouchers, and the key federal
court decisions that have opened the door to an explosion of state
legislation. Offers profiles of voucher policies in two states that
have made the largest efforts to support vouchers, as well as the
only nationally funded program in the nation's capital. Edited by
three scholars with extensive experience in the study of school
choice, with chapters by national experts who have produced seminal
work in the field.
Schools of Opportunity builds an argument for shifting the way that
excellent schools are recognized and built. The National Education
Policy Center's Schools of Opportunity project was designed to
highlight public high schools that are using research-based
practices for closing opportunity gaps in student learning. The
project recognizes schools working to address the needs of all
students, whether or not those schools have high average test
scores. This approach thus embraces a shift away from the nation's
myopic focus on outcomes. This follows from research findings that
schools alone cannot fix the problems created by the stark
inequalities in our society. Instead, schools should be expected to
do their part by responding to inequities with research-based
practices. With these shifts in mind, this book provides case
studies of schools that demonstrate key criteria that other schools
can emulate, such as an inclusive school climate, support for
language-minority students, performance-based assessment, teacher
professionalism, a commitment to detracking, and supports for
students in need. Book Features: Provides accounts of school
reform, jointly told by researcher–practitioner teams, connecting
current research with successful efforts of educators to create
outstanding learning environments. Brings together the voices of
principals and school leaders who share stories of how their work
has unfolded in their school, district, and state contexts.
Identifies the school leadership and teacher practices that close
opportunity gaps for student learning, and what it takes to
implement them.
Access issues are pivotal to almost all charter school tensions and
debates. How well are these schools performing? Are they
segregating and stratifying? Are they public and democratic? Are
they fairly funded? Can apparent successes be scaled up? Answers to
all these core questions hinge on how access to charter schools is
shaped. This book describes the incentives and pressures on charter
schools to restrict access and examines how charters navigate those
pressures, explaining access-restricting practices in relation to
the ecosystem within which charter schools are created. It also
explains how charters have sometimes responded by resisting the
pressures and sometimes by surrendering to them. The text presents
analyses of 13 different types of practices around access, each of
which shapes the school's enrollment. The authors conclude by
offering recommendations for how states and authorizers can address
access-related inequities that arise in the charter sector.
School's Choice provides timely information on critical academic
and policy issues that will come into play as charter school policy
continues to evolve.Book Features: Examines how charter schools
control who gains and retains access. Explores policies and
practices that undermine equitable admission and encourage
opportunity hoarding. Offers a set of policy recommendations at the
state and federal level to address access-related issues.
Access issues are pivotal to almost all charter school tensions and
debates. How well are these schools performing? Are they
segregating and stratifying? Are they public and democratic? Are
they fairly funded? Can apparent successes be scaled up? Answers to
all these core questions hinge on how access to charter schools is
shaped. This book describes the incentives and pressures on charter
schools to restrict access and examines how charters navigate those
pressures, explaining access-restricting practices in relation to
the ecosystem within which charter schools are created. It also
explains how charters have sometimes responded by resisting the
pressures and sometimes by surrendering to them. The text presents
analyses of 13 different types of practices around access, each of
which shapes the school's enrollment. The authors conclude by
offering recommendations for how states and authorizers can address
access-related inequities that arise in the charter sector.
School's Choice provides timely information on critical academic
and policy issues that will come into play as charter school policy
continues to evolve.Book Features: Examines how charter schools
control who gains and retains access. Explores policies and
practices that undermine equitable admission and encourage
opportunity hoarding. Offers a set of policy recommendations at the
state and federal level to address access-related issues.
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