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“The More We Can Try To Open Them Up, The Better It Will Be For Their Integration”: Integration And The Coercive Assimilation Of Muslim Youth, Reva Jaffe-Walter
“The More We Can Try To Open Them Up, The Better It Will Be For Their Integration”: Integration And The Coercive Assimilation Of Muslim Youth, Reva Jaffe-Walter
Department of Educational Leadership Scholarship and Creative Works
Capitalizing on national anxieties, right wing populist leaders promise to enforce national borders with new constellations of policies that regulate and exclude Muslim bodies. Using the theoretical tool of “technologies of concern” (Jaffe-Walter, 2016), this essay critiques how state security discourses operate through public schools. Drawing on ethnographic research with Muslim youth in a Danish public school and an analysis of European integration policies, the author analyzes how policies and practices that ostensibly support young people’s integration enact everyday violence and coercive assimilation. Highlighting the perspectives of the young people she worked with, the author argues that state efforts to …
Orienting Schools Toward Equity: Subgroup Accountability Pressure And School-Level Responses, Rachel Garver
Orienting Schools Toward Equity: Subgroup Accountability Pressure And School-Level Responses, Rachel Garver
Department of Educational Leadership Scholarship and Creative Works
This article examines school-level responses to subgroup accountability pressure through an ethnographic case study of a school cited for failing to make adequate yearly progress for student subgroups. Concerns about the calculations and measures used to derive the citation and reservations about acting on accountability data delegitimized the citation and rendered the identified subgroups irrelevant to daily practice. Under district guidance, compliance with subgroup accountability was independent of the school's internal efforts to promote equity.
Getting Connected: Finding Literacy Resources In The Common Core Era, Serena J. Salloum, Susanna L. Benko, Emily Hodge
Getting Connected: Finding Literacy Resources In The Common Core Era, Serena J. Salloum, Susanna L. Benko, Emily Hodge
Department of Educational Leadership Scholarship and Creative Works
The authors provide practical, evidence-based advice for teachers and educational leaders looking for helpful curricular and professional resources that support students’ literacy development in the era of the Common Core State Standards.