Homeroom Security : School Discipline in an Age of Fear / Aaron Kupchik.
2010
LB3012 .K87 2016
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Title
Homeroom Security : School Discipline in an Age of Fear / Aaron Kupchik.
Author
Kupchik, Aaron, author.
ISBN
9780814749203
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2010]
Copyright
©2010
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.18574/nyu/9780814748206.001.0001 doi
Call Number
LB3012 .K87 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
371.5
Summary
Police officers, armed security guards, surveillance cameras, and metal detectors are common features of the disturbing new landscape at many of today's high schools. You will also find new and harsher disciplinary practices: zero-tolerance policies, random searches with drug-sniffing dogs, and mandatory suspensions, expulsions, and arrests, despite the fact that school crime and violence have been decreasing nationally for the past two decades. While most educators, students, and parents accept these harsh policing and punishment strategies based on the assumption that they keep children safe, Aaron Kupchik argues that we need to think more carefully about how we protect and punish students.In Homeroom Security, Kupchik shows that these policies lead schools to prioritize the rules instead of students, so that students' real problems-often the very reasons for their misbehavior-get ignored. Based on years of impressive field research, Kupchik demonstrates that the policies we have zealously adopted in schools across the country are the opposite of the strategies that are known to successfully reduce student misbehavior and violence. As a result, contemporary school discipline is often unhelpful, and can be hurtful to students in ways likely to make schools more violent places. Furthermore, those students who are most at-risk of problems in schools and dropping out are the ones who are most affected by these counterproductive policies. Our schools and our students can and should be safe, and Homeroom Security offers real strategies for making them so.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023)
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Bracy, Nicole L., contributor.
Series
Youth, Crime, and Justice ; ; 6
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print 9780814748206
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
contents
preface
acknowledgements
introduction
1. a new regime
2. protecting our children
3. a blue line on the chalkboard
4. teaching to the rules
5. unequal discipline
conclusion
epilogue
appendix
notes
index
about the author
contents
preface
acknowledgements
introduction
1. a new regime
2. protecting our children
3. a blue line on the chalkboard
4. teaching to the rules
5. unequal discipline
conclusion
epilogue
appendix
notes
index
about the author