Ending zero tolerance : the crisis of absolute school discipline /
"In the era of zero tolerance, we are flooded with stories about schools issuing draconian punishments for relatively innocent behavior. One student was suspended for chewing a Pop-Tart into the shape of a gun. Another was expelled for cursing on social media from home. Suspension and expulsion...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2016
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| Series: | Families, law, and society series
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- I. The making of an educational crisis. 1. From friends to enemies
- 2. Judicial disengagement
- 3. The insufficiency of policy reform : new research, new reforms, same old problems
- II. Courts' role in ending the crisis. 4. Making discipline rational
- 5. Individualizing discipline
- 6. The constitutional right to education : can the state justify taking it away?
- 7. Ensuring quality education through discipline : fixing dysfunctional school environments
- Conclusion