Test, Measure, Punish: How the Threat of Closure Harms Students, Destroys Teachers and Fails Schools - Couverture rigide

Michaels, Erin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1479823384 ISBN 13 : 9781479823383

Editeur : New York University Press, 2025

Synopsis

The risk of closure and repression in schools

In the last two decades, education officials have closed a rising number of public schools nationwide related to low performance. These schools are mainly located in neglected neighborhoods with high concentrations of poverty. Despite this credible threat of closure, relatively few individual schools threatened with closure for low performance in the United States are actually shut down. Yet, as Erin Michaels argues, the looming threat is ever present. Test, Measure, Punish critically shifts the focus from school shutdowns to the more typical situation within these strained public schools: operating under persistent risk of closure.

Many K-12 schools today face escalating sanctions if they do not improve according to repressive state mandates, which, in turn, incentivize schools to put into place nonstop test drills and strict student conduct rules. Test, Measure, Punish traces how threats of school closure have distorted education to become more punitive which disproportionately impacts-even targets-Black and Latinx communities and substantially hurts student social development. This book addresses how these new punitive schooling conditions for troubled schools reproduce racial inequalities.

Michaels centers her research in a suburban upstate New York high school serving mainly working-class Black and Latinx students. She reveals a new model of schooling based on testing and security regimes that expands the carceral state, making the students feel dejected, criminalized, and suspicious of the system, their peers, and themselves. Test, Measure, Punish offers a new theory of schooling inequality and shows in vivid detail why state-led school reforms represent a new level of racialized citizenship in an already fragmented public education system.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Erin Michaels is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1479823384
• ISBN 13: 9781479823383
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 277
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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