4. Safety or Social Control? The Security Fortification of Schools in a Capitalist Society

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. New Disciplinary Orders: Police, Surveillance, and Inequality in the Carceral School
5. 1. To Protect, Serve, and Mentor? Police Officers in Public Schools 21
6. 2. School Surveillance in America: Disparate and Unequal 38
7. 3. The Docile Body in School Space 55
8. Part II. Schools as Markets: Selling Security, Buying Students
9. 4. Safety or Social Control? The Security Fortification of Schools in a Capitalist Society 73
10. 5. Online Surveillance in Canadian Schools 87
11. 6. “School Ownership Is the Goal”: Military Recruiting, Public Schools, and Fronts of War 104
12. Part III .Security Cultures: Preparing for the Worst
13. 7. Reading, Writing, and Readiness 123
14. 8. Risky Youth and the Psychology of Surveillance: The Crisis of the School Shooter 140
15. Part IV .Accountability Regimes: Tests, Standards, and Audits as Surveillance
16. 9. “Politics by Other Means”: Education Accountability and the Surveillance State 159
17. 10. The Measure of Success: Education, Markets, and an Audit Culture 175
18. 11. Lying, Cheating, and Teaching to the Test: The Politics of Surveillance Under No Child Left Behind 194
19. Part V. Everyday Resistance: Contesting Systems of Control
20. 12. Scan This: Examining Student Resistance to School Surveillance 213
21. 13. Seductions of Risk, Social Control, and Resistance to School Surveillance 230
22. Contributors 247
23. Index 253