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Christopher Cleveland – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2022
Background: Suspensions can have negative effects on students' immediate academic and long-run outcomes, including increasing their likelihood of being arrested and incarcerated as an adult (Bacher-Hicks, Billings, Deming, 2019). School discipline practices have become a concern of families and policymakers and there have been increasing local,…
Descriptors: Discipline Policy, School Policy, Educational Change, Suspension
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Curran, F. Chris; Finch, Maida A. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2021
Purpose: Over the past decade, increasing attention to the negative impacts of exclusionary discipline and disparities therein has led many state educational leaders to enact school discipline reforms. This study examined the response by school district leadership to a state's revision of guidelines for student codes of conduct. Data: This study…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Discipline Policy, Administrator Surveys, School Districts
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Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest, 2020
Reflecting an overall policy shift in Oregon and nationwide, Oregon passed laws in 2013 and 2015 aimed at changing the way school discipline is applied in grades K-12. The 2013 legislation directed districts to replace zero-tolerance policies with an emphasis on preventing and reducing unnecessary student suspensions and expulsions. Suspensions…
Descriptors: State Policy, Discipline Policy, School Policy, Prevention
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Nishioka, Vicki; Stevens, David; Deutschlander, Denise; Burke, Arthur; Merrill, Becca; Aylward, Alex – Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest, 2020
In 2013 and 2015 Oregon enacted legislation that shifted school discipline policies from a zero-tolerance approach to one that emphasizes preventing behavioral problems and reducing unnecessary suspensions and expulsions. Suspensions and expulsions are often referred to as exclusionary discipline because they remove students from classroom…
Descriptors: State Policy, Discipline Policy, School Policy, Prevention
Estes, El-Roy – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Restorative practices emerged on the scene within the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) as of recent. In 2006, CPS revamped their Student Code of Misconduct handbook from a strict and stern "zero-tolerance" voice to a more sensitive and subtle "restorative talk" approach. With this transition in effect, the school's culture and…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Peace, Leadership
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Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest, 2020
This is the appendixes for the report, "Are State Policy Reforms in Oregon Associated with Fewer School Suspensions and Expulsions?" This study examined the association between state-level policy reforms and suspension and expulsion rates for grades K-12 in Oregon public schools. The findings suggest that the policy shift has led to some…
Descriptors: State Policy, Discipline Policy, School Policy, Prevention
Kevin M. Higley – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Tasked with ensuring that school environments are safe and orderly, school administrators spend an increasingly inordinate amount of time and energy on managing student discipline. Often, when students commit egregious behaviors or violate school policy, schools resort to out-of-school disciplinary consequences, i.e. suspension, expulsion, or…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Students, Expulsion
Lee Collyer – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2022
The 2022 Legislature directed the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) to create an advisory workgroup with specific participants to report back on topics related to student isolation and seclusion. This legislative report provides a background on the workgroup, history of isolation and restraint, current practices in the state of…
Descriptors: Discipline, Punishment, Behavior Modification, Timeout
Gagnon, Douglas; Mattingly, Marybeth; Connelly, Vincent J. – Carsey School of Public Policy, 2014
In 2013, Carsey released a brief that analyzed rates of restraint and seclusion using a large, nationally representative data set of U.S. school districts. This brief, which analyzes a more comprehensive data set and the most current Civil Rights Data Collection, serves as a follow-up to the previous brief. Authors Douglas Gagnon, Marybeth…
Descriptors: School Districts, State Policy, School Policy, Discipline Policy
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Payne, Ruth – Educational Review, 2015
The use of systems of rewards and sanctions within behaviour policies has now been adopted formally in UK schools. Such systems potentially represent competing theoretical ideas when considered alongside current approaches to teaching and learning. There is also opportunity for inconsistent use of rewards and sanctions resulting from the absence…
Descriptors: Rewards, Sanctions, Foreign Countries, Student Behavior
Guardino, David Matthew – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Over the last 35 years, the disproportionate use of discipline by gender, race/ethnicity, and disability status has been consistently documented. Specifically, Black males receive the majority of suspensions and expulsions. Discipline for Native American and Hispanic students, while often showing overrepresentation, is less consistent. There is…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Discipline, African American Students, Males
Stonemeier, Jenny; Trader, Barb; Wisnauskas, Jacque – National Center on Schoolwide Inclusive School Reform: The SWIFT Center, 2014
School discipline has been a subject of national attention both inside and outside the field of education for years. Efforts to improve how schools and communities work together to address student discipline have shown the potential for creative and effective solutions that provide better outcomes for all--students, families, educators, and…
Descriptors: Discipline Policy, School Policy, Student Behavior, Zero Tolerance Policy
Braddix, D'Andre Cortez – ProQuest LLC, 2012
As adult students constitute nearly half of all undergraduates in the United States, college practitioners need to identify effective disciplinary strategies for this population when violations of institutional rules and regulations occur. The purpose of this quasi-experimental, action research study was to modify the student conduct process for…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Quasiexperimental Design, Action Research, College Faculty
Whisman, Andy; Chapman, Don – West Virginia Department of Education, 2013
A statewide analysis was conducted on school disciplinary incidents reported during the 2012-2013 school year--the first full year under the revised Policy 4373. Findings from the analysis are provided to help inform districts and schools about what supports they may need to improve school climate, including more positive approaches to student…
Descriptors: Discipline, School Policy, Data Collection, School Districts
Freedberg, Louis; Chavez, Lisa – EdSource, 2012
During the past several years, there have been growing concerns regarding the effectiveness of school discipline policies, as well as their disproportionate impact on African American and Latino students. For at least a decade, questions have been raised about district-level "zero tolerance" policies that have contributed to larger…
Descriptors: Discipline, Discipline Policy, School Policy, Zero Tolerance Policy
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