Authors:Richard Arum, Irenee R. Beattie, Richard Pitt, Jennif
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: moral, authority, crisis, discipline, school, judging
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2005-09-30
List price: $21.50
ISBN-10: 0674018141
ISBN-13: 9780674018143

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 Di