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Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#418049-XL41
Titel	Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse
Auteur	Fuentes, Annette
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	London : Verso Books
Jaar van uitgave	2013
ISBN10	184467407X
ISBN13	9781844674077
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting	School violence has fallen steadily for twenty years. Yet in schools throughout the United States, Annette Fuentes finds metal detectors and drug tests for aspirin, police profiling of students with no records, arbitrary expulsions, armed teachers, increased policing, and all-seeing electronic surveillance. This climate of fear has permitted the imposition of unprecedented restrictions on young people's rights, dignity, and educational freedoms. In what many call the school-to-prison pipeline, the policing and practices of the juvenile justice system increasingly infiltrate the schoolhouse. These “zero tolerance” measures push the most vulnerable and academically needy students out of the classroom and into harm's way. Fuentes's moving stories will astonish and anger readers, a... (Lees verder)s she makes the case that the public schools of the twenty-first century reflect a society with an unhealthy fixation on crime, security and violence.
Pagina's	226
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 12,50

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