Through a case study of the Los Angeles city school district from the 1950s through the 1970s, Judith Kafka explores the intersection of race, politics, and the bureaucratic organization of schooling. Kafka argues that control over discipline became increasingly centralized in the second half of the twentieth century in response to pressures exerted by teachers, parents, students, principals, and local politicians - often at different historical moments, and for different purposes. Kafka demonstrates that the racial inequities produced by today's school discipline policies were not inevitable, nor are they immutable.
While schools and legislatures have proven unable and unwilling to amend their failing policies, Ending Zero Tolerance argues for constitutional protections to check abuses in school discipline and lays out theories by which courts should ...
"This book examines the most frightening and challenging form of juvenile violence, the K-12 school violence perpetrator, as separate from all other forms of school and public offenders.
This volume is a call to action for policymakers, educators, parents, and students.” —Marian Wright Edelman, president, Children’s Defense Fund
... The History of “Zero Tolerance” in American Public Schooling (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 6 (discussing the bureaucratization and centralization of discipline in response to Goss). Arum, Judging School Discipline, 5. Ibid., 4 ...
Examines the relationship between the law and the school-to-prison pipeline, argues that law can be an effective weapon in the struggle to reduce the number of children caught, and discusses the consequences on families and communities.
For those who recognize the dangers posed by mass incarceration and who hold onto the hope that education can provide an alternative pathway for our most vulnerable youth, this book will be a wake-up call and hopefully a call to action. ...
Driver provides a fresh account of the historic legal battles, and argues that since the 1970s the Supreme Court has transformed public schools into Constitution-free zones.
For example, Barr (1928) examined 106 observation protocols and rating forms used in schools in the 1920s and found that 131 separate indicators were being assessed by these instruments, only 71 of which appeared on more than one ...
... M. PAYNE & CAROL SILLS STRICKLAND, EDS. Social Studies for Social Justice: Teaching Strategies for the Elementary Classroom RAHIMA C. WADE Pledging Allegiance: The Politics of Patriotism in America's Schools JOEL WESTHEIMER, ED.
This Brief reviews the past, present, and future use of school corporal punishment in the United States, a practice that remains legal in 19 states as it is constitutionally permitted according to the U.S. Supreme Court.