The History of "Zero Tolerance" in American Public Schooling [electronic resource] /
Kafka, J.author.
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.
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgments; One Zero Tolerance and the Case of Los Angeles; Two Discipline Before Zero Tolerance, 1800-1950; Three Bureaucratizing Discipline in the Blackboard Jungle; Four Struggle for Control in the 1960s; Five The Death of in Loco Parentis; Conclusion: Reclaiming School Discipline; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
United States—History.
History, Modern.
Educational policy.
Education and state.
Education—History.
Education.
US History.
Modern History.
Educational Policy and Politics.
Education Policy.
History of Education.
Education, general.