Test, measure, punish : how the threat of closure harms students, destroys teachers, and fails schools /

Michaels, Erin Rose

Test, measure, punish : how the threat of closure harms students, destroys teachers, and fails schools / Erin Michaels. - x, 189 pages ; 23 cm - Critical perspectives on youth . - Critical perspectives on youth series .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: A School Under Threat -- The Creation of a "Bad" School: Divestment in an Inner-Ring Suburb -- Schooling Under Threat of Closure: State Surveillance and Punishment in 21st Century Education -- "What are we, test monkeys?" The Testing Regime Complex -- "Bad" Kids: The Stigma of a School Under Threat -- On (Not) Fixing Racialized Policing Through Neoliberal Accountability: Intensifying Pervasive Social Control Beyond a Formal Suspension -- Go Get Them (And Not Me): Fostering Peer Antagonisms Through School Policing Practices -- Conclusion: We Can't 'Measure and Punish' Our Way Out of This.

"Test, Measure, Punish offers a new theory of schooling inequality that provides scholars, students, and the broader interested public with a deeper understanding of why state-led school reforms represent a new level of racialized citizenship in 21st century public education"--

9781479823390 (paperback ; alk. paper) 1479823392 (paperback ; alk. paper)

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Case studies.

LC 212.522 / M621t 2025