Title: Students as Stakeholders in Education Policy
Abstract: Urban education policy debates pivot around dueling lines of discourse on what ails inner-city youth; specifically, students in inner-city schools are portrayed as emblems of a largely African American and Latino “culture of failure,” even as they remain largely absent as active participants in policy-making. A key tension, then, lies in how youth organizing groups attempt to help students assert themselves not as “troublemakers,” but as legitimate political stakeholders in education policy. I draw upon ethnographic data from two case study organizations that belong to the Urban Youth Collaborative mentioned above, Brotherhood/ Sister Sol and Sistas and Brothas United. First, the students are presumed to lack educational values, even as they make efforts to attain skills and confidence for their campaigns. Second, even after they articulate and voice their arguments, policymakers do not receive them as political stakeholders, and there are few formal public forums or opportunities for student input in the current school governance system.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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