Gilberto Q. Conchas is Professor of Educational Policy and Social Context, University of California, Irvine, USA.

Michael A. Gottfried is Assistant Professor of Education Policy, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

Briana M. Hinga is Assistant Professor of Clinical Education, University of Southern California, USA.

Leticia Oseguera is an Associate Professor of Higher Education at the Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Conceptualizing the Intricacies that are Concomitant in Educational Policy Making that Determine Success, Backfire and Everything in Between

Leticia Oseguera, Miguel Abad, Jacob Kirksey, Briana Hinga, Gilberto Conchas, and Michael Gottfried

Part 1: Backfire

Chapter 2: How Equity and Social Justice Urban Education Choice Campaigns in Detroit are Masquerading Backfire and the Worsening the Status Quo

Cassie J. Brownell

Chapter 3: When Policies that Impact Students with Significant Disabilities in Michigan Backfire

Mark E. Deschaine

Chapter 4: When Zero-Tolerance Discipline Policies in the United States Backfire

Hugh Potter and Brian Boggs

Chapter 5: When Free Schools in England and Charter Schools in the United States Backfire

Graham Downes and Catherine A. Simon

Part 2: Failure

Chapter 6: When High-Stakes Accountability Measures Impact Promising Practices in an Indigenous-serving Charter School

V. Anthony-Stevens

Chapter 7: How Public-Private Partnerships Contribute to Educational Policy Failure

Frank Fernandez, Karla I. Loya, and Leticia Oseguera

Chapter 8: The Failure of Accountability in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program

Michael R. Ford & William Velez

Chapter 9: How Centralized Implementation Policies Failed the Austrian New Middle School Process

Corinna Geppert

Part 3: Unintended

Chapter 10: The Unintended Consequences of School Vouchers: Rise, Rout and Rebirth

Aaron Saiger

Chapter 11: Challenges and Unintended Consequences of Student Centered Learning

Lea Hubbard and Amanda Datnow

Chapter 12: School Discipline Policies That Result in Unintended Consequences for Latino Male Students' College Aspirations

Adrian H. Huerta, Sha