... arts and a canon of school texts, its practice of competitive displays of reading, writing, and reciting were intended to instill in the young social as well as intellectual ideas....

... and controlling gang membership. Andrea student college Monica student Rachel student youth Edgar student identities prisonization secondary affiliations criminalization mass incarceration street gangs carceral social order school to prison pipeline policing administration prison prison...

... hosts in migrant ethnogenesis theory parents Nigerian schools teachers British teachers U S bullying in Britain ethnic boundaries Michelle Anoke pseudonym origin ethnic boundaries based on racial discrimination in Britain racial discrimination in U S Temitayo Tella pseudonym “African booty...

... earlier Chinese Buddhist practice. It also discusses the story of Mazu Daoyi's enlightenment, the eightfold path to the emergence of transcribed encounter dialogue, “questions about things” in the Northern School, and the use of ritualized dialogue between Chan teachers and students. Bodhidharma Buddha...

...This chapter seeks to develop a deeper understanding of contemporary magnet school trends. We look specifically at the characteristics of student enrollment to understand whether magnets are more or less racially, socioeconomically, or linguistically diverse than regular public schools and charter...

...Charter schools in New Orleans have been hailed as the silver lining to Hurricane Katrina. The state of Louisiana used the hurricane as an opportunity to rebuild the entire New Orleans public school system, which had been considered among the worst in the nation. They also launched the nation’s...

...This chapter examines how urban parents navigate the growth of public school choice policies and information on the internet. We created SmartChoices, a public school search tool for the Hartford, Connecticut, region; conducted parent workshops (with hands—on instruction in English and Spanish...

...This chapter looks into other habits of labor and love that mothers are asked to perform for their nursery-school children. Throughout, the message is to utilize pleasures the mother is best able to provide with the aim of getting children to perform certain tasks. Making everyday work both...

...Legacy is California’s newest version of “continuation” or alternative education. This school is housed in a World War II army barrack. Here, kids are searched, made to walk through metal detectors, placed on formal or informal probation, and subjected to perpetual contact with criminal justice...

...Caught Up follows the lives of 50 Latina girls in “El Valle” Juvenile Detention Center and “Legacy” community school located 40 miles outside of Los Angeles, CA. Their path through these two institutions reveals the accelerated fusion of California schools and institutions...

... engagement with the Arabian peninsula and championing of unifying the Hausaland region under the textual regimen of the Maliki school of Islamic law. The second layer of the sunnaic paradigm, the role the Sokoto jihad plays in contemporary northern Nigerian idealizations of an ideal Islamic society...

...This chapter explains how and why public schools and prisons have collaborated in the War on Crime era. It shows that the punitive shift in education catalyzes youth correctional vulnerability while serving larger social and political needs. Specifically, it documents the powerful influences...

...This chapter looks closely at New Orleans to show how punitive school disciplinary measures endorse the War on Crime, compounding the academic problems of African American students within the city's historically dysfunctional school system. It draws a picture of the dismal educational...

...This chapter investigates the New Orleans Prison School—a public school in a prison—where African American male students were sent as punishment for nonviolent status offenses. Through the voices of local residents, including students and their families, teachers, local activists, and law...

..., of pictures, and of actions—and on open-mindedness to what those examinations will reveal, rather than on elaboration of new master narratives or social theories to replace the materialist reductionism of Marxism and the Annales school. Finally, an overview of the chapters included in this book is given...

...This chapter summarizes the existing evidence on the subject of school safety practices. It argues that students need firm and clearly communicated rules, but that schools across the U.S. have gone too far in this direction, resulting in harmful over-policing and punishment of students. After...

...Chapter 8 concludes the book by summarizing the argument about the real school safety problem and why this problem is vitally important for the well-being of youth, families, communities, and all of society. It outlines productive next steps for moving forward by discussing a series of principles...

...This chapter considers how migrants' educational priorities and practices reshaped Silicon Valley neighborhoods and schools. For many Asian American families, high-performing schools have been among the most important factors drawing them to particular communities around the region...

... States. It discusses race and perceived discrimination among Mexican Americans, and reviews the socioeconomic status and accomplishments of second-generation Mexican Americans, from the school and labor-force accomplishments of an earlier second generation through the school performance of second...

...This chapter demonstrates how a focus on educational equity for disadvantaged girls helped redeem and revive the cause of single-sex education. In the wake of the controversy over proposals to create all-male public school academies for inner-city boys, advocacy for single-sex education shifted...