Judging school discipline : the crisis of moral authority /
Arum, Richard,
Judging school discipline : the crisis of moral authority / Richard Arum. - 1 online resource (xii, 321 pages) : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Questioning school authority -- Student rights versus school rules ; How judges rule / with From the bench to the paddle / with School discipline and youth socialization / with Restoring moral authority in American schools. Irenee R. Beattie -- Richard Pitt ; Jennifer Thompson -- Sandra Way --
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Annotation 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, a powerfully reasoned 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 vivid descriptions of individual cases, the book explores 1,200 cases in which a school's right to control students was contested. Richard Arum and his colleagues also examine several decades of data on schools to show striking and widespread relationships among court leanings, disciplinary practices, and student outcomes; they argue that the threat of lawsuits restrains teachers and administrators from taking control of disorderly and even dangerous situations in ways the public would support.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
English.
9780674020290 (electronic bk.) 0674020294 (electronic bk.) (alk. paper) (alk. paper) 0674262891 9780674262898
10.4159/9780674020290 doi
22573/ctv1pk8w8g JSTOR
2003050864
Moral education--United States.
School discipline--Law and legislation--United States.
Education--Social aspects--United States.
Éducation morale--États-Unis.
Discipline scolaire--Droit--États-Unis.
Éducation--Aspect social--États-Unis.
EDUCATION--Aims & Objectives.
EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General
Education--Social aspects.
Moral education.
School discipline--Law and legislation.
Discipline.
Straffen.
Scholen.
Onderwijsrecht.
Autorité
Discipline scolaire.
Droit.
École publique.
Éducation morale.
United States.
États-Unis.
Electronic books.
LC311 / .A78 2003eb
370.114
Judging school discipline : the crisis of moral authority / Richard Arum. - 1 online resource (xii, 321 pages) : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Questioning school authority -- Student rights versus school rules ; How judges rule / with From the bench to the paddle / with School discipline and youth socialization / with Restoring moral authority in American schools. Irenee R. Beattie -- Richard Pitt ; Jennifer Thompson -- Sandra Way --
Use copy
Annotation 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, a powerfully reasoned 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 vivid descriptions of individual cases, the book explores 1,200 cases in which a school's right to control students was contested. Richard Arum and his colleagues also examine several decades of data on schools to show striking and widespread relationships among court leanings, disciplinary practices, and student outcomes; they argue that the threat of lawsuits restrains teachers and administrators from taking control of disorderly and even dangerous situations in ways the public would support.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
English.
9780674020290 (electronic bk.) 0674020294 (electronic bk.) (alk. paper) (alk. paper) 0674262891 9780674262898
10.4159/9780674020290 doi
22573/ctv1pk8w8g JSTOR
2003050864
Moral education--United States.
School discipline--Law and legislation--United States.
Education--Social aspects--United States.
Éducation morale--États-Unis.
Discipline scolaire--Droit--États-Unis.
Éducation--Aspect social--États-Unis.
EDUCATION--Aims & Objectives.
EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General
Education--Social aspects.
Moral education.
School discipline--Law and legislation.
Discipline.
Straffen.
Scholen.
Onderwijsrecht.
Autorité
Discipline scolaire.
Droit.
École publique.
Éducation morale.
United States.
États-Unis.
Electronic books.
LC311 / .A78 2003eb
370.114