Foreword: Governing through Crime and the Pedagogy of PunishmentHenry A. Giroux vii
Introduction to the First EditionKenneth J. Saltman 1
Introduction to the Second EditionKenneth J. Saltman and David A. Gabbard 19
1 The Function of Schools: Subtler and Cruder Methods of ControlNoam Chomsky 26
2 Rivers of Fire: BPAmaco’s iMPACT on EducationKenneth J. Saltman and Robin Truth Goodman 36
3 Education Is Enforcement!: The Centrality of Compulsory Schooling in Market SocietiesDavid A. Gabbard 57
4 Cracking Down: Chicago School Policy and the Regulation of Black and Latino YouthPauline Lipman 73
5 Facing Oppression: Youth Voices from the FrontPepi Leistyna 92
6 Tased and Confused: From Social Exclusion to Shock in the War on YouthChristopher G. Robbins 114
7 Freedom for Some, Discipline for “Others”: The Structure of Inequity in EducationEnora R. Brown 130
8 Forceful Hegemony: A Warning and a Solution from Indian CountryFour Arrows 165
9 From Abstraction and Militarization of Language Education to Society for Language Education: Lessons from Daisaku Ikeda and Tsunesaburo MakiguchiJason Goulah 173
10 The Proliferation of JROTC: Educational Reform or MilitarizationMarvin J. Berlowitz and Nathan A. Long 181
11 Combat Girls: What Single-Sex Classrooms Have to Do with the Militarization of Women’s BodiesRobin Truth Goodman 192
12 Education for War in Israel: Preparing Children to Accept War as a Natural Factor of LifeHaggith Gor 209
13 Post-Columbine Reflections on Youth Violence as a (Trans)National MovementJulie Webber 218
14 Imprisoning Minds: The Violence of Neoliberal Education or “I Am Not For Sale!”Sheila Landers Macrine 230
15 Taking Command: The Pathology of Identity and Agency in Predatory CultureRon Scapp 239
16 Commentary on the Rhetoric of Reform: A Twenty-Year RetrospectiveSandra Jackson 247
17 Securing the Corporate State: Education, Economism, and Crisis in the Age of ObamaAlex Means 261
18 Controlling Images: Surveillance, Spectacle, and High-Stakes Testing as Social ControlKevin D. Vinson, E. Wayne Ross, and John F. Welsh 274
19 The Politics of Compulsory Patriotism: On the Educational Meanings of September 11Michael W. Apple 291
Contributor Biographies 301
Index 305