Schools under surveillance : cultures of control in public education / edited by Torin Monahan and Rodolfo D. Torres.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

To protect, serve, and mentor? Police officers in public schools / Aaron Kupchik, Nicole L. Bracy -- School surveillance in America: disparate and unequal / Paul Hirschfield -- The docile body in school space / Lizbet Simmons -- Safety or social control? The security fortification of schools in a capitalist society / Ronnie Casella -- Online surveillance in Canadian schools / Valerie Steeves -- "School ownership Is the goal": military recruiting, public schools, and fronts of war / Tyler Wall -- Reading, writing, and readiness / Richard A. Matthew -- Risky youth and the psychology of surveillance: the crisis of the school shooter / Tyson Lewis -- "Politics by other means": education accountability and the surveillance state / Pauline Lipman -- The measure of success: education, markets, and an audit culture / Michael W. Apple -- Lying, cheating, and teaching to the test: the politics of surveillance under No Child Left Behind / John Gilliom -- Scan this: examining student resistance to school surveillance / Jen Weiss -- Seductions of risk, social control, and resistance to school surveillance / Andrew Hope.

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Schools under Surveillance gathers together some of the very best researchers studying surveillance and discipline in contemporary public schools. Essays covera broad range of topics including police and military recruiters on campus, testingand accountability regimes such as No Child Left Behind, and efforts by students andteachers to circumvent the most egregious forms of surveillance in public education. Eachcontributor is committed to the continued critique of the disparity and inequality in theuse of surveillance to target and sort students along lines of race, class, and gender.

English.

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