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Direct linkSmith, Michael Dale – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Staff members working at alternative schools must use best practices to effectively serve at-risk students and reduce expulsion rates. Expulsion is directly linked to high school dropout rates, with subsequent social costs. Today's alternative schools serve at-risk students who exhibit problematic behaviors, providing them an opportunity to…
Descriptors: Expulsion, Discipline, Discipline Policy, At Risk Students
Baker, Timberly L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study addresses the use of suspension and expulsion for defiant behavior. It examines the contributions of student and/or school characteristics and their relationship to suspension and expulsion for defiance, specifically focusing on African Americans. The purpose of this study is to examine factors that lead to students being suspended or…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Institutional Characteristics, Suspension, Disproportionate Representation
Jonathon Anthony Szymanski – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Public education has long been the subject of public discontent. Historical events such as the Soviet launch of "Sputnik" in 1957, the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and repeated media reports that U.S. students were outscored by students in many other countries on international tests each prompted federal and state…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission (School), Student Behavior, Accountability
Brownstein, Rhonda – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2010
Significant numbers of students are being pushed out of school as a result of "zero tolerance" school discipline policies. While nobody questions the need to keep schools safe, teachers, students, and parents are questioning the methods being used in pursuit of that goal. Zero tolerance policies were initially aimed at making schools safe. The…
Descriptors: Suspension, Law Enforcement, Zero Tolerance Policy, Violence
Brownstein, Rhonda – Teaching Tolerance, 2009
Significant numbers of students are being pushed out of school as a result of "zero tolerance" school discipline policies. While nobody questions the need to keep schools safe, teachers, students, and parents are questioning the methods being used in pursuit of that goal. Initially enacted to counter violent behavior and drug use, zero tolerance…
Descriptors: Suspension, Violence, Dropout Rate, Teacher Burnout
Peer reviewedBock, Stacey Jones; Savner, Jennifer L.; Tapscott, Katherine E. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1998
Provides a brief review of legal procedures that schools have available under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997, and discusses problems with using suspension and expulsion, including recidivism, increased dropout rates, overrepresentation of minorities receiving suspension or expulsion, and indiscriminate…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Disabilities, Discipline Policy, Dropout Rate
