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Todd Grindal; Kirby Chow; Christen Park; Sheila Smith; Nicola Conners Edge – SRI Education, a Division of SRI International, 2023
Expulsion and suspension (or exclusionary discipline) in early care and education (ECE) are widely recognized as harmful to children. Numerous states have developed expulsion and suspension prevention policies through legislation or administrative rules. However, there is limited research on the implementation of state policies designed to reduce…
Descriptors: Suspension, Expulsion, Discipline, Early Childhood Education
Valeria Milstead-Benabdallah – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the national enrollment rate for pre-k children ages 3 to 4 was 40% (a drop from 54% in 2019; National Center for Education Statistics, 2022). This is partly due to fewer children in the 0-5 age group (23.4 million of 72.8 million children in the United States in 2020; U.S. Census Bureau, 2020).…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers, Behavior Problems, Child Behavior
McCann, Carey; Smith, Sheila; Nguyen, Uyen; Granja, Maribel R. – National Center for Children in Poverty, 2021
This report examines features of states' expulsion and suspension prevention policies, based on survey responses and interviews with selected states. The results point to the widespread efforts states are making to develop and implement expulsion prevention policies. Features of policies are varied, and include supports for programs (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Expulsion, Suspension, Prevention
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Conners Edge, Nicola A.; Rose, Arlene; Honeycutt, Deneice; McKelvey, Lorraine; Swindle, Taren; Courson, Diana; Forsman, J. Andrew – Journal of Early Intervention, 2018
This article describes the development, initial implementation, and formative evaluation of Arkansas's plan to reduce suspensions and expulsion from early care and education (ECE) settings. We describe how Arkansas used multifaceted implementation strategies to facilitate change in six areas: policy, workforce development, specialized supports,…
Descriptors: Young Children, Suspension, Expulsion, Program Implementation
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Lawson, Caron; Prentice, Kate; Jennings, Janine; Johnston, Kate – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2022
Children excluded from school often have a range of unidentified needs that may directly contribute to their behaviour. Research and policy highlight the absence of screening for difficulties in children at risk of exclusion. This study aimed to assess and explore the feasibility and acceptability of neurodevelopmental and mental health screening…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mental Disorders, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Screening Tests
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Lewis, Calli G.; Bullock, Lyndal M. – Journal of Special Education Apprenticeship, 2016
A data set from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being II was analyzed to determine if significant relationships existed between participants' internalizing and externalizing scores on the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and their (a) scores on assessments of academic achievement and (b) behavior problems leading to suspension or…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, National Surveys, Check Lists