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.

Introduction
Part I New Disciplinary Orders
To Protect, Serve, and Mentor? Police Officers in Public Schools
School Surveillance in America
The Docile Body in School Space
Part II Schools as Markets
Safety or Social Control? The Security Fortification of Schools in a Capitalist Society
Online Surveillance in Canadian Schools
"School Ownership is the Goal"
Part III Security Cultures
Reading, Writing and Readiness
Risky Youth and the Psychology of Surveillance
Part IV Accountability Regimes
"Politics by Other Means"
The Measure of Success
Lying, Cheating and Teaching to the Test
Part V Everyday Resistance
Scan This
Seductions of Risk, Social Control and Resistance to School Surveillance

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.