ERIC Number: EJ1260507
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Aug
Pages: 39
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"¡Ya Basta!" Countering the Effects of Neoliberal Reform on an Urban Turnaround High School
American Educational Research Journal, v57 n4 p1868-1906 Aug 2020
This article provides an account of the ways in which students and adult supporters of an urban turnaround high school mobilized to defy the rhetoric of neoliberal reforms and the subsequent deficit narrative imposed on them and on their school. Their counternarratives refute the master narratives advanced by federal and state educational reforms. The current rationale of neoliberal reforms and the disabling terminology used to construct the identity of a school and the individuals associated with the school are interrogated through the theoretical framework of Dis/ability Critical Race Theory. An alternative approach and philosophy of thought regarding school reform and the ways in which we define the worth and value of a school, its students, and the larger community is offered.
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Neoliberalism, Educational Change, Urban Schools, School Turnaround, High Schools, Resistance to Change, Urban Education, Disabilities, Critical Theory, Race, Rhetoric, High School Students, Student Attitudes, Minority Group Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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