What is it about?
How students at an urban high school resisted the threat of having their high school closed by using their voices.
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Why is it important?
Students with disabilities and without disabilities provided their insights. This is important because student voice researchers and advocates rarely include students with disabilities in their research.
Perspectives
Before adults make decisions about schools, they should stop and think about who they are impacting. It is not about the teachers, administrators, or parents. It is about the students. They are the ones who are affected the most about leadership and policy decisions. Yet, we tend to place them on the back burner and watch out for what is important to us. If we are going to turn our schools around, we need to start paying attention to them and considering their lives and futures rather than our own.
Dr. Barbara L. Pazey
University of Texas at Austin
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This page is a summary of: Student Voice From a Turnaround Urban High School: An Account of Students With and Without Dis/Abilities Leading Resistance Against Accountability Reform, Urban Education, September 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0042085916666930.
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