Punishing Schools: Fear and Citizenship in American Public Education

William Lyons,Julie Drew

Punishing Schools: Fear and Citizenship in American Public Education
Format
Paperback
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press
Country
United States
Published
8 March 2006
Pages
264
ISBN
9780472069057

Punishing Schools: Fear and Citizenship in American Public Education

William Lyons,Julie Drew

In a society increasingly dominated by zero-tolerance thinking,
Punishing Schools
argues that our educational system has become both the subject of legislative punishment and the instrument of punishment for children. Authors Lyons and Drew analyze the connections between a culture of economic punishment of our schools (by the diversion of funding to charter schools, the imposition of unfunded mandates, and the enforcement of dubious forms of teacher accountability) and the imposition by those schools of punitive controls on their own students - a vicious cycle that creates fear and encourages the development of passive and dependent citizens. Based on in-depth interviews and detailed analysis of official documents, newspapers, and popular texts,
Punishing Schools
offers a rich and incisive critique of our public education system and its role in our national political culture.

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