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Lesley Eblie Trudel; Wayne Davies – Exceptionality Education International, 2024
This qualitative study delves into the perspectives of school leaders in a Canadian province, exploring their views on student suspensions and alternative approaches to school discipline. Amid a provincial advocacy organization's call for a review and reduction of suspensions in that jurisdiction, the study captures both constructive and critical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Assistant Principals, Discipline Policy
Katelyn Mae Noel Singleton – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The use of exclusionary discipline practices in schools has continued to increase since the advent of Zero Tolerance discipline policies in the 1990s. Research indicates that these practices are largely ineffective in addressing behavior, and result in detrimental outcomes for students and communities. This study focused on the use of Disciplinary…
Descriptors: Discipline, Suspension, Student Behavior, Discipline Policy
Pope, Amity Camilla – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Teachers and administrators in an urban, suburban, and rural school district on the east coast of the United States faced challenges implementing effective discipline policy interventions to manage student misbehavior. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the perceptions of educators about the challenges of implementing discipline…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Secondary Schools, Administrators, Attitudes
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Valdebenito, Sara; Gaffney, Hannah; Jolliffe, Darrick – Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2023
The primary goal of the present mixed methods review is to systematically examine the available evidence for the effectiveness of different types of school-based interventions for reducing disciplinary school exclusion. Quantitative evidence will help to understand the overall size of the impact, as well as the factors that better explain it.…
Descriptors: School Activities, Discipline Policy, Discipline, Intervention
Brett J. Marcum – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examines the impact of an alternative to suspension program on second semester office discipline referrals for participating students. The study compares students who completed the intervention program with those who would have qualified during the school year prior to the program being available at the school district. The study was…
Descriptors: Discipline Policy, Referral, Suspension, Intervention
Henault, Katelyn – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Students who display problematic behavior in schools are subject to punitive disciplinary responses, such as detention and suspension, which typically lead to more serious academic and behavioral difficulties. There is evidence that alternative responses to problematic behavior, such as Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports and mindfulness…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Behavior Problems, Student Behavior, Discipline Policy
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Dana E. Page; Timothy J. Landrum – Beyond Behavior, 2024
Research suggests that a cycle of misbehavior can escalate quickly from corrections over minor rule infractions to threats of serious disciplinary consequences. There is also evidence that Black youth may be especially at risk for these escalations due to subtle or implicit racial bias, or cultural mismatches that may lead teachers to believe that…
Descriptors: Discipline Problems, Discipline Policy, Intervention, Aggression
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Brasof, Marc – Journal of Educational Change, 2019
Because misbehavior in schools is often instigated by a confluence of organizational features, the purpose of this research was to understand what Youth Court reveals about the causes of in-school conflicts and to what extent its processes help to address them. This multi-site qualitative case study collected data in the form of observations,…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Conflict, Educational Environment, Juvenile Courts
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Fergus, Edward – School Psychology Review, 2018
The current policy terrain is primed for schools to absorb new discipline strategies and address bias-based beliefs. Over the past 10 years, numerous policy changes regarding discipline have emerged at the federal and state levels. I argue these policy shifts, primarily at the state level, are using two of four value levers (quality, efficiency,…
Descriptors: Role, Discipline Policy, Intervention, Educational Policy
Jonathon Peter Sanchez – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Disproportionate discipline, the overrepresentation of predominately Black and Latinx students in school disciplinary actions, has led to students from these groups being suspended more frequently and for longer durations than their White peers. This trend is found most often in subjective discipline incidents (SDIs) where authority figures must…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Hispanic American Students, Discipline Policy, Racial Discrimination
Rafa, Alyssa – Education Commission of the States, 2018
Exclusionary and punitive school discipline policies, such as suspensions and expulsions, allow educators to remove students from the classroom for poor behavior or misconduct. However, emerging research suggests that these practices also increase the likelihood that students repeat grades, are excessively absent from school, drop out entirely…
Descriptors: Discipline Policy, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Suspension
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Weathers, Ericka S.; Hollett, Karen Babbs; Mandel, Zoë R.; Rickert, Christine – Peabody Journal of Education, 2021
Mirroring trends in the legal system, discipline within education has adopted zero-tolerance policies in an attempt to curb undesired behaviors in school. K-12 schools have expanded the use of exclusionary discipline policies for lesser offenses, giving way to the phenomenon known as the school-to-prison-pipeline (STPP), which disproportionately…
Descriptors: Truancy, Elementary Secondary Education, Student Behavior, Discipline Policy
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McCluskey, Gillean; Cole, Ted; Daniels, Harry; Thompson, Ian; Tawell, Alice – British Educational Research Journal, 2019
This article draws on findings from the first cross-national study of school exclusion in the four jurisdictions of the UK. It casts new light on the crucial aspects of children's education that lead to school exclusion. It investigates the reasons for the UK disparities, as well as the policy and practice in place. The focus of this article is on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Expulsion, Suspension, Educational Policy
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Garrity, Sarah M.; Longstreth, Sascha L.; Linder, Lisa K. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2017
The purpose of this study was to expand the knowledge base regarding discipline policies in early care and education (ECE) programs by examining the extent to which programs utilize policies that reflect the implementation of evidence-based practices to prevent and address challenging behaviors in the early years. Discipline policies were gathered…
Descriptors: Discipline Policy, School Policy, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
Heather L. Chadwell Dennis – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Providing students with equitable and safe learning experiences is a fundamental right; however school districts grapple with balancing student learning and student safety. In the Brown vs the Board of Education (1954) decision, the court identified education as a basic public responsibility and a principal instrument to facilitate understanding…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Legislation, Weapons, School Safety
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