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OverviewKate Phillippo follows a diverse group of Chicago students through the processes of researching, applying to, and enrolling in public high school, finding that the students are powerful policy actors who carry out and redefine competitive choice. Phillippo's work amplifies the voices of students — rather than the parents, educators, public intellectuals, and policymakers who so often inform school choice research — and investigates how students interact with and emerge from competitive choice academically, developmentally, and civically. Through students' experiences, she shows how competitive choice legitimates and exacerbates existing social inequalities; collides with students' developmental vulnerability to messages about their ability, merit, and potential; and encourages young people's individualistic actions as they come to feel that they must earn their educational rights. From urban infrastructure to income inequality to racial segregation, Phillippo examines the factors that shape students' policy enactment and interpretation, as policymakers and educators ask students to compete for access to public resources.With competitive choice, even the winners — the lucky few admitted to their dream schools — don't outright win. A Contest without Winners challenges meritocratic and market-driven notions of opportunity creation for young people and raises critical questions about the goals we have for public schooling. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kate Phillippo , Kate PhillippoPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm ISBN: 9781517904340ISBN 10: 151790434 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 19 March 2019 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents Abbreviations Introduction: Competitive Choice Policy, the Students Who Enact It, and Its Social Backdrop 1. Unequal Opportunities, Unevenly Distributed: The Puzzle of Admission Results 2. Education Policy without Educators: How Competitive Choice Puts Responsibility for Quality Schooling on Students 3. The Sculptors and the Sculptures: How Neighborhoods Shape and Are Shaped by Competitive Choice Policy 4. Differentially Defended: Students’ Developmental Vulnerability to Competitive Choice and Family Capital’s Buffering Role 5. Civic Education: How Competitive Choice Policy Encourages Civic Individualism Conclusion: Surprises, Lessons Learned, and a Few Paths Forward Acknowledgments Appendix A: Research Participants Appendix B: Research Methods: Learning from Adolescents about Urban Education Policy Appendix C: High Schools Attended or Mentioned by Study Participants, by School Type Notes IndexReviewsFinally, a smart, thorough, in-depth examination of the impact of high-stakes competitive high school admissions processes on the young people who engage it. A Contest without Winners holds a mirror up to the district, showing what the costs are for policy decisions to heavily invest in a few elite schools rather than ensuring that all students in the district have access to high-quality schooling. --Amanda E. Lewis, coauthor of Despite the Best Intentions: How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools A Contest without Winners shows readers the faces and voices of the eighth graders embroiled in Chicago's competitive choice system. Kate Phillippo describes how the students navigate the demands placed on them, how the system changes their views of fairness and of themselves, and how school choice policy legitimizes the very inequalities that rig the competition. --Kevin G. Welner, director, National Education Policy Center Author InformationKate Phillippo is associate professor of cultural and educational policy studies at Loyola University Chicago’s School of Education. She is author of Advisory in Urban High Schools: A Study of Expanded Teacher Roles. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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