Although the number of U.S. schools implementing multitiered systems of support for behavior (MTSS-B) continues to grow, most schools have still not adopted these evidence-based frameworks. We examined the views of educators (N = 561) at the outset of adopting MTSS-B in their schools or districts. Our survey addressed the (a) reasons schools and…

This study was designed to determine parent and student perspectives on school discipline in Tennessee schools and is parallel to an earlier study that examined the opinions towards discipline of teachers, administrators, and other school personnel. The sample includes nearly 1,300 students from three districts representing rural, small city, and…

A questionnaire was developed, pilot tested, and then administered to approximately 4,000 Tennessee teachers, administrators, and other school personnel to determine their views on which discipline problems seem most significant, the conditions or influences related to the problems, the most appropriate approaches for solving discipline problems,…