Ending Zero Tolerance The Crisis of Absolute School Discipline

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Black, Derek W.

Series:

Families, law, and society series.

Families, law, and society series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School discipline--Law and legislation.

School discipline--Law and legislation--United States.

School discipline.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] NEW YORK University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 an 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.

Contents:

From friends to enemies

Judicial disengagement

The insufficiency of policy reform: New research, new reforms, same old problems

Making discipline rational

Individualizing discipline

The constitutional right to education: Can the state justify taking it away?

Ensuring quality education through discipline: Fixing dysfunctional school environments.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4798-7312-8

OCLC:

1227051388