When School Policies Backfire: How Well-Intended Measures Can Harm Our Most Vulnerable Students

by Amanda Datnow (Foreword), Gilberto Q . Conchas (Editor), Michael A . Gottfried (Editor)

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  Illustrated
  2016

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  Like medical practitioners, educators share the moral obligation to first, do no harm. But as this provocative volume shows, education policies do not always live up to this ideal. When School Policies Backfire draws our attention to education policies designed to help disadvantaged students that instead had the perverse effect of harming them.