How Schools Meet Students' Needs
Inequality, School Reform, and Caring Labor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Rutgers University Press
Published:14th Nov '22
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Meeting students’ basic needs – including ensuring they have access to nutritious meals and a sense of belonging and connection to school – can positively influence students’ academic performance. Recognizing this connection, schools provide resources in the form of school meals programs, school nurses, and school guidance counselors. However, these resources are not always available to students and are not always prioritized in school reform policies, which tend to focus more narrowly on academic learning. This book is about the balancing act that schools and their teachers undertake to respond to the social, emotional, and material needs of their students in the context of standardized testing and accountability policies. Drawing on conversations with teachers and classroom observations in two elementary schools, How Schools Meet Students’ Needs explores the factors that both enable and constrain teachers in their efforts to meet students’ needs and the consequences of how schools organize this work on teachers’ labor and students’ learning.
"The data is interesting and the stories are compelling. How Schools Meet Students’ Needs is a significant contribution to a field without adequate attention."— Jennifer A. Reich, Author of Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines
"Kerstetter provides a vivid ethnographic account of how policies such as No Child Left Behind actually produce the opposite outcomes from what they supposedly aim to accomplish, constraining public schools from being able to effectively educate low-income children. How Schools Meet Students’ Needs is well-written and easy to read."— Julia Sass Rubin, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
"The data is interesting and the stories are compelling. How Schools Meet Students’ Needs is a significant contribution to a field without adequate attention."— Jennifer A. Reich, Author of Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines
"Kerstetter provides a vivid ethnographic account of how policies such as No Child Left Behind actually produce the opposite outcomes from what they supposedly aim to accomplish, constraining public schools from being able to effectively educate low-income children. How Schools Meet Students’ Needs is well-written and easy to read."— Julia Sass Rubin, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
ISBN: 9781978823594
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
Weight: 59g
158 pages