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Zero tolerance : resisting the drive for punishment in our schools : a handbook for parents, students, educators, and citizens / edited by William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and Rick Ayers
Physical Description:xvi, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. print
Publisher:New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2001.
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Introduction: resisting zero tolerance / William Ayers, Rick Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn -- Ground zero / Gregory Michie -- Two punches, expelled for life / Rick Ayers -- Arturo's case / Steven Drizin -- From the jail yard to the school yard / Tony DeMarco -- Racial profiling at school : the politics of race and discipline at Berkeley High / A.A. Akom -- Decatur : a story of intolerance / Valerie Johnson -- America still eats her young / Gloria Ladson-Billings -- "Look out kid, it's something you did" : zero tolerance for children / Bernardine Dohrn -- How distorted coverage of juvenile crime affects public policy / Vincent Schiraldi, Jason Ziedenberg -- Zero tolerance as mandatory sentencing / Robert Schwartz, Len Rieser -- Education, deliquency, and incarceration / James Bell -- Sexual harassment meets zero tolerance : life in K-12 schools / Nan Stein -- Sticks and stones : the jailing of mentally ill kids / Carl Ginsburg, Helen Demeranville -- Zero tolerance : a basic racial report card / Rebecca Gordon, Libero Della Piana, Terry Keleher -- When is disproportionality discrimination? : the overrepresentation of black students in school suspension / Russell Skiba -- The ABCs of school discipline : lessons from Miami-Dade County / Judith A. Browne -- Finding safety where we least expect it : the role of social capital in preventing school violence / Pedro A. Noguera -- Turning to each other, not on each other : how school communities prevent racial bias in school discipline / Susan Sandler -- The role of law in policing abusive disciplinary practices : why school discipline is a civil rights issue / Daniel J. Losen, Christopher Edley, Jr. -- Zero tolerance : reflections on a failed policy that won't die / Michelle Fine, Kersha Smith.