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"--
Discrimination in education--New York (State)--Case studies. Educational evaluation--New York (State)--Case studies. Public school closings--New York (State)--Case studies. Minority high school students--Social conditions--New York (State)--Case studies. Education and state--New York (State)--Case studies.