| The History of Zero Tolerance in American Public Schooling 2011 Edition Contributor(s): Kafka, J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1137366532 ISBN-13: 9781137366535 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $53.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Urban - Education | History - Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects |
| Dewey: 370.809 |
| Series: Palgrave Studies in Urban Education |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.5" (0.55 lbs) 181 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Chronological Period - Modern |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |