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Punishing schools : fear and citizenship in American public education /

Argues that our educational system has become both the subject of legislative punishment and an instrument for the punishment of children. Lyons and Drew analyze the connections between state sanctions against our schools (the diversion of funding to charter schools, imposition of unfunded mandates,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lyons, William, 1960-
Other Authors: Drew, Julie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2006]
Series:Law, meaning, and violence.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Punishing schools and a zero tolerance culture
  • Talking out of school : living and learning in suburbia
  • Popular culture and public pedagogy : fear and identity in suburbia and Pleasantville
  • Punitive politics and punishing schools
  • The place of urban high school in central city political culture
  • Zero tolerance culture : fear as punishment, patronage, and pedagogy.