The history of "zero tolerance" in American public schooling
By: Judith Kafka
Series: Palgrave studies in urban education
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780230603684
Subjects: EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General; School discipline; Discrimination in education; EDUCATION / History; History
Description: "This book looks back at the historical roots of "zero tolerance" school discipline policies. 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 20th 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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-174) and index.