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Brownstein, Rhonda – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2010
Significant numbers of students are being pushed out of school as a result of "zero tolerance" school discipline policies. While nobody questions the need to keep schools safe, teachers, students, and parents are questioning the methods being used in pursuit of that goal. Zero tolerance policies were initially aimed at making schools safe. The…
Descriptors: Suspension, Law Enforcement, Zero Tolerance Policy, Violence
Brownstein, Rhonda – Teaching Tolerance, 2009
Significant numbers of students are being pushed out of school as a result of "zero tolerance" school discipline policies. While nobody questions the need to keep schools safe, teachers, students, and parents are questioning the methods being used in pursuit of that goal. Initially enacted to counter violent behavior and drug use, zero tolerance…
Descriptors: Suspension, Violence, Dropout Rate, Teacher Burnout