Ending zero tolerance
Subtitle: the crisis of absolute school discipline
By: Derek W. Black
Series: Families, law, and society series; Families, law, and society series
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9781479877027
Subjects: Law and legislation; School discipline
Description: "Suspension and expulsion rates have doubled over the past three decades as zero tolerance policies have become the normal response to a host of minor infractions that extend well beyond just drugs and weapons. Students from all demographic groups have suffered, but minority and special needs students have suffered the most. Derek Black weaves stories about individual students, lessons from social science, and the outcomes of courts cases to unearth a shockingly irrational system of punishment. While schools and legislatures have proven unable and unwilling to amend their failing policies, Ending Zero Tolerance argues for constitutional protections to check abuses in school discipline and lays out theories by which courts should re-engage to enforce students' rights and support broader reforms." -- Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-228) and index.
Table of contents: title: From friends to enemies; title: Judicial disengagement; title: The insufficiency of policy reform: new research, new reforms, same old problems; title: Making discipline rational; title: Individualizing discipline; title: The constitutional right to education: can the state justify taking it away?; title: Ensuring quality education through discipline: fixing dysfunctional school environments.