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
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- ISBN: 1565846664 (pbk.)
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xvi, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
print - Publisher: New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2001.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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Zero Tolerance : Resisting the Drive for Punishment in Our Schools :a Handbook for Parents, Students, Educators, and Citizens
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Zero Tolerance : Resisting the Drive for Punishment in Our Schools :a Handbook for Parents, Students, Educators, and Citizens
"Zero tolerance" began as a prohibition against guns, but it has quickly expanded into a frenzy of punishment and tougher disciplinary measures in American schools. Ironically, as this timely collection makes clear, recent research indicates that as schools adopt more zero tolerance policies they in fact become less safe, in part because the first casualties of these measures are the central, critical relationships between teacher and student and between school and community. Zero Tolerance assembles prominent educators and intellectuals, including the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., Michelle Fine, and Patricia Williams, along with teachers, students, and community activists, to show that the vast majority of students expelled from schools under new disciplinary measures are sent home for nonviolent violations; that the rush to judge and punish disproportionately affects black and Latino children; and that the new disciplinary ethos is eroding constitutional protections of privacy, free speech, and due process. Sure to become the focus of controversy, Zero Tolerance presents a passionate, multifaceted argument against the militarization of our schools.