Volatile knowing: parents, teachers, and the censored story of accountability in America's public schools

Foreword

Acknowledgements

1. Accountability in the Schools: What the People Don't Know

2. Challenging the Virtually Unchallenged: A Personal Experience

3. Making Sense of the Accountability Movement: Organized (and Profitable) Malevolence Against the Public Schools

4. Redefining Accountability in Our Schools: Inviting Parents to the Learning Community

5. Research Findings: Tracing a Path Toward Hope

6. The Inversion of Visibility

7. The Instruments of Discipline

8. Reframing the Panopticon

Appendices

A. Methodology

B. Discipline in the Public School Panopticon

C. Osmosis & the Evolution of the Public School Panopticon

Bibliography

Index

About the Author