How Schools Meet Students' Needs: Inequality, School Reform, and Caring Labor

Author:   Katie Kerstetter
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
ISBN:  

9781978823594


Pages:   158
Publication Date:   14 November 2022
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Format:   Hardback
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How Schools Meet Students' Needs: Inequality, School Reform, and Caring Labor


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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.

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Author:   Katie Kerstetter
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.059kg
ISBN:  

9781978823594


ISBN 10:   1978823592
Pages:   158
Publication Date:   14 November 2022
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction  Part I The Work of Teaching 1 Beyond Standardized Testing: Meeting Students’ Social, Emotional, and Material Needs  Part II Oak Grove Elementary 2 Working in an Audit Culture: Surveillance and Teaching at Oak Grove Elementary  3 “This is the Most Dreadful Test”: The Hidden Curriculum of Standardized Testing  Part III City Charter School 4 Working as Part of a School Reform Movement: Urgency, Achievement Gaps, and Individual Responsibility  5 “I Would Love to Hear What You Have to Say”: Cultural Reproduction in Social and Emotional Learning  Conclusion  Appendix  Acknowledgments Notes  Bibliography  Index

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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


"""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"


Author Information

Katie Kerstetter, Ph.D., is a Research Affiliate with the Center for Social Science Research and an Affiliate of the Center for Population Studies at the University of Mississippi. Her research focuses on the study of education, health, and social inequality, with a particular interest in how social policies influence the daily lived experiences of teachers, other frontline workers, and the individuals they serve. 

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