Expelling Hope: The Assault on Youth and the Militarization of Schooling

Demonstrates the many devastating and interrelated threats that punitive policies like "zero tolerance" pose to youth, schooling, and democracy.

Winer of the 2008 Critics' Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association

Expelling Hope raises critical questions about the effects of punitive policies, particularly "zero tolerance," and repressive social relationships on youth (of color) and public schooling. It argues convincingly that zero tolerance is a catchword, or l...