Scribner, Campbell F. & Warnick, Bryan R. Spare the Rod: Punishment and the Moral Community of Schools. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021.
This book offers a thoughtful historical perspective on the issue of corporal punishment in US Schools. As the authors trace changes in social attitudes about children and the role of punishment, they explain how disciplinary practices in schools often lack any educative value and are, therefore, at odds with the very purpose of schooling. They offer a thoughtful rationale for a restorative justice model of discipline which all thoughtful and ethical educators should consider.