New Jersey's Vineland High School North faced many behavioral and vandalism problems during its first year of operation (1976-77) and adopted a program to improve this situation during its second year. This effort involved adoption and thorough dissemination of student rules, a series of parent orientation meetings, a new community information…

In discussing school discipline, the place to begin is by considering whether detention, suspension, and expulsion help students and resolve discipline problems. Detention seems to be most effective when the student is detained on the same day and as close as possible to the time the offense occurs, but too often detention is used merely as a…

The Student Handbook is a guide to the policies and procedures of New College in Sarasota, Florida. It covers the academic, social and residential aspects of campus life, including ways of getting a BA degree, requirements for graduation, the meaning of "academic good standing," student obligations in setting up a program, conditions of…

This is a report of the tentative recommendations of the Harvard University Committee on Governance with respect to the rights and responsibilities of students, faculty, and administrators. The primary focus is on discipline policy. The report is divided into 9 topics. Part I is the Introduction. Part II contains a summary of the 7 major tentative…

This report summarizes the academic performance of one entering class of probation freshmen for three semesters at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. All probation freshmen were subject to evening hour restrictions. Emphasis is also placed on the opinions of freshman students who have been on probation and directors of the fourteen…

This document reports the proceedings of a conference concerning substantial justice on campus, held at the University of Georgia campus in November 1972. Topics of concern included: balancing student rights and institutional needs; challenge from the courts; sense of justice on campus and in society; institutional justification of the existence…

A questionnaire was administered to 356 teachers and administrators enrolled in graduate courses at Northern Illinois University. The participants were divided into four age groups: 18-26, 27-33, 34-40, and over 40. The questionnaire investigated attitudes concerning the initiation of classroom discipline, effective methods for classroom…

This report has been prepared to increase the general awareness of how serious a problem corporal punishment can be and also to contribute some possible corrective steps. The document consists of (1) a summary of the current situation, (2) specific civil liberties considerations, (3) harmful effects, (4) illustrative case reports, (5) recent court…

The author explains the evolving nature of discipline problems, the dilemmas of today's educator in dealing with discipline, and offers suggestions for developing a positive classroom atmosphere and positive discipline policies, based on reasonable and just rules. (KC)

The author presents a retrospective examination of the recurring conflict between the inculcation of America's cultural heritage and the development of the child as a free individual, by examining the concept of "school discipline" as practiced from colonial days through the twentieth century. (MJB)

It is in cases where disruptive students are dealt with by school disciplinarians possessing extensive discretionary power that the school's recognition or denial of student rights and interest assumes sharpest focus. (MJB)

In contrast to Gerard C. Penta's notion, this article maintains that the teacher must have the discretion to punish the misbehaving student and denies that this is necessarily authoritarian. (DS)

Raises several questions as to whether or not we are at a turning point with respect to violence in schools, whether or not school people have arrived at a series of adjustments based on containment, and what implications may be in the answers to those questions. (Author/RK)

The fundamentals of sound secondary student discipline are embodied in six concepts. Suggests that recognition of these concepts and an enthusiastic effort to implement them will have a positive impact on the school. (Author/RK)

Provides a sequence to follow in the development of a discipline policy at the junior high school level. A successful policy includes consistency, continual recordkeeping, communication with parents, oncampus suspension, and positive reinforcement. (MD)