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Walsh, Mark – Education Week, 2009
This article reports a U.S. Supreme Court decision last week which supports the parents of a Massachusetts student who claimed that school officials failed to respond adequately to sexual harassment of their daughter--then in kindergarten--by a 3rd grade boy on her bus. The parents sued the district under both Title IX and Section 1983. In the…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Courts, Gender Bias, Sexual Harassment
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Gresham, Frank M. – Education & Treatment of Children, 2005
Children and youth exhibiting serious emotional, behavioral, and interpersonal problems create substantial challenges for schools, teachers, their parents, and other students. Stu-dents having these characteristics are often underserved or unserved by educational and mental health systems in the United States. Recent prevalence rates for children…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Disability Identification, Behavior Disorders, Student Behavior
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Dickinson, Mark C.; Miller, Ted L. – American Secondary Education, 2006
This paper examined the effectiveness of in-school suspension (ISS) with high-school students who are protected under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The accepted purpose of ISS is to remove disruptive students from the classroom, thus giving these students the benefit of remaining in school where they can continue to work…
Descriptors: Legal Responsibility, Compliance (Legal), Suspension, Student Behavior
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Crimmins, Daniel; Farrell, Anne F. – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (RPSD), 2006
Positive behavior support (PBS) has evolved over the past 15 years from an individualized approach to behavior management to one with an increased focus on universal applications. Although there are clear areas of convergence between individualized and universal supports, it is also clear that the provision of individualized supports is an…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Behavior Modification, Federal Legislation, Student Behavior
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and the Workforce. – 2000
This document contains the proceedings of a hearing held on August 13, 1999, before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth, and Families. The hearing addressed school safety, discipline, and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Following opening remarks of the congressmen, the report includes…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Problems, Child Safety
Jordan, Dixie – Technical Assistance ALLIANCE for Parent Centers, 2005
Many children have inappropriate behaviors that are part of their disability. These behaviors may make it difficult to learn, cause harm to the child or others, or isolate a child from his or her peers. Some children have behaviors that they can't control, such as tics for a child with Tourette syndrome or self-harming behaviors for some children…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Parents, Learning Processes