Schools Under Surveillance: Cultures of Control in Public Education

Jacket Description/Flap: "Schools under Surveillance" gathers together some of the very best researchers studying surveillance and discipline in contemporary public schools. Essays cover a broad range of topics including police and military recruiters on campus, testing and accountability regimes such as No Child Left Behind, and efforts by students and teachers to circumvent the most egregious forms of surveillance in public education. Each contributor is committed to the continued critique of the disparity and inequality in the use of surveillance to target and sort students along lines of race, class, and gender. Review Quotes: "A fascinating and sophisticated look at the structure of power relations present in the security practices of public education. Focusing on 'the other side' of school safety policies which typically do not fully consider the effects of various control mechanisms, "Schools Under Surveillance" represents a major addition to the literature that will undoubtedly be of great value to scholars, practitioners, and policy makers alike."--Henry Pontell"University of California, Irvine" (06/22/2009) Review Quotes: ""Schools under Surveillance" raises a set of important and critical questions about how public schools have become one of the most surveilled of contemporary spaces. Monahan and Torres have put together a fine collection of provocative work that captures the essence of these new school accountability regimes."--William G. Staples"author of Everyday Surveillance: Vigilance and Visibility in Postmodern Life" (01/01/2011) Biographical Note: TORIN MONAHAN is an associate professor of human and organizational development at the Peabody College of Education and Human Development and an associate professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University. He is the editor and author of several books, including Surveillance and Security: Technological Politics and Power in Everyday Life. RODOLFO D. TORRES is a professor of political economy and urban studies at the University of California, Irvine. Publisher Marketing: Schools under Surveillance gathers together some of the very best researchers studying surveillance and discipline in contemporary public schools. Surveillance is not simply about monitoring or tracking individuals and their data - it is about the structuring of power relations through human, technical, or hybrid control mechanisms. Essays cover a broad range of topics including police and military recruiters on campus, testing and accountability regimes such as No Child Left Behind, and efforts by students and teachers to circumvent the most egregious forms of surveillance in public education. Each contributor is committed to the continued critique of the disparity and inequality in the use of surveillance to target and sort students along lines of race, class, and gender. Special topics covered in this title include: security systems; police officers; audit cultures; standardized tests; marketing research; and, military recruiters. Review Citations:

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Contributor Bio:  Monahan, Torin Torin Monahan is associate professor in the Department of Human and Organizational Development at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, "Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity."Contributor Bio:  Torres, Rodolfo D David R. Diaz is Professor of Chicano Studies at California State University, Los Angeles.