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Rappaport, Nancy; Minahan, Jessica – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
There is no definitive research on how many students display sexualized behavior in schools. Sexually inappropriate behavior includes using sexual language, gestures, or noises, engaging in pretend play that simulates sex, making sexual invitations to others, inappropriately touching another person, or masturbating in the classroom. These…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Behavior Disorders
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Pfleger, Ryan; Wiley, Kathryn – National Education Policy Center, 2012
The Colorado legislature has recently taken school discipline policies under review, pursuant to SB 11-133. To inform the discussion in Colorado as well as a national discussion about discipline, this report presents an analysis of the most complete set of Colorado discipline data. It adds to and reinforces existing studies, documenting some…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Disproportionate Representation, Discipline Policy, Behavior Standards
Ross, Virginia; DeJong, William – Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention, 2008
Although any new undertaking is exciting because of the opportunities it may bring, the transition to college life also brings new pressures and uncertainties. From the shelter of home, young people emerge into a new culture, with a new environment for success. Here they are their own masters, often far from the vigilance of parents and the…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Drug Abuse, College Freshmen, Student Behavior
Taffee, Stephen J. – 1980
Decisions about what a teacher finds to be acceptable classroom behavior vs. unacceptable classroom behavior are value decisions. Unless a teacher has identified and delineated personal beliefs, attitudes, and feelings about discipline, and shaped them into a system of responses which are consistent with his or her personal teaching style, a…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Change Strategies, Classroom Techniques, Discipline
Natriello, Gary – 1982
Two strategies employed by school administrators to obtain compliance in public schools are examined in terms of their concrete expression in school rules regarding student behavior. Two kinds of rules are specified: comparative rules, which juxtapose some student behavior with an organizational response in an exchange relationship; and definitive…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Change Strategies, Compliance (Legal), Discipline Policy
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Reed, Jodie – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2003
Shortly after coming to power, Tony Blair's New Labour government expressed its strong commitment to tackling the problem of school expulsion. The Treasury's 1998 Spending Review included the bold target to achieve "a reduction by one third in... exclusions (from 12,500 to 8,400 permanent exclusions a year) by 2002". This article gives…
Descriptors: Expulsion, Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Political Attitudes
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Weiner, Lois – Theory Into Practice, 2003
Why is classroom management especially problematic for urban teachers, and why has research yielded so few helpful answers to this question? In this article I take up both questions, suggesting that the answer to both emanates from the same source: the reliance on deficit paradigms to explain underachievement of students who have historically not…
Descriptors: Ideology, Urban Teaching, Classroom Techniques, Urban Schools