Expelling Hope: The Assault on Youth and the Militarization of Schooling (SUNY series, INTERRUPTIONS: Border Testimony(ies) and Critical Discourse/s) - Tapa dura

"...a strong addition to the critical discussion about public education and what it would truly mean to leave no child behind." -- CHOICE

"When 'zero tolerance' replaced 'teaching tolerance' as the dominant paradigm for children's lives and public education, society unleashed nothing less than a low-grade, persistent war on youth--and on our common future. Children in schools find themselves locked out and locked in, searched and surveilled, excluded and banished, objects of a militarized social order. Christopher Robbins has written a brilliant and incisive account of the ravaging of hope through the criminalization of youth, punishing kids by depriving them of an education. A must read to see how we got here, who is served, and how to resist." -- Bernardine Dohrn, coeditor of Zero Tolerance: Resisting the Drive for Punishment in Our Schools: A Handbook for Parents, Students, Educators, and Citizens

"The author makes important new links between the phenomenon of zero tolerance and the scholarship on militarism, neoliberalism, and democratic politics." -- Kenneth J. Saltman, coeditor of Education as Enforcement: The Militarization and Corporatization of Schools