Ending zero tolerance : the crisis of absolute school discipline / Derek W. Black.

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"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 studen...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Families, law, and society series.
Main Author: Black, Derek W. (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Series:Families, law, and society series.
Subjects:
School discipline > Law and legislation > United States.
School discipline > Law and legislation.
United States.
Physical Description:x, 237 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
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.