Publication

2003-10-30 - Harvard University Press

Language

English

Word Count

84,000 words, Guess

Page Count

336 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2003050864
  • Goodreads4408964
  • LibraryThing3904305

Classifications

  • LCCLC311 .A78 2003

Description

"Reprimand a class comic, restrain a bully, dismiss a student for brazen attire - and you may be facing a lawsuit, costly regardless of the result. This reality for today's teachers and administrators has made the issue of school discipline more difficult than ever before - and public education thus more precarious. This is the troubling message delivered in Judging School Discipline, an account of how decades of mostly well-intended litigation have eroded the moral authority of teachers and principals and degraded the quality of American education." "Judging School Discipline casts a backward glance at the roots of this dilemma to show how a laudable concern for civil liberties forty years ago has resulted in oppressive abnegation of adult responsibility now. In a rigorous analysis enriched by descriptions of individual cases, the book explores 1,200 cases in which a school's right to control students was contested."--Jacket.

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