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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798534203321

Autore

BLACK DEREK W

Titolo

Ending Zero Tolerance : The Crisis of Absolute School Discipline

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2021

©2018

ISBN

1-4798-7312-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 pages)

Collana

Families, law, and society series

Disciplina

344.73/0793

Soggetti

School discipline - Law and legislation

School discipline - Law and legislation - United States

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.