The History of Zero Tolerance in American Public Schooling

Through a case study of the Los Angeles city school district from the 1950s through the 1970s, Judith Kafka explores the intersection of race, politics, and the bureaucratic organization of schooling. Kafka argues that control over discipline became increasingly centralized in the second half of the twentieth century in response to pressures exerted by teachers, parents, students, principals, and local politicians - often at different historical moments, and for different purposes. Kafka demonstrates that the racial inequities produced by today's school discipline policies were not inevitable, nor are they immutable.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/16/2011
ISBN: 9780230603684
Pages: 181
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Choice 07/01/2012