Summary of the Michigan Public Employees Relations Act and of decisions involving public education employees and institutions issued by the Michigan Employment Relations Commission. (JF)

Describes the Alternative School in the Gwinnett County School System, Lawrenceville, Georgia, as an optional program teaching appropriate behavior and better study habits to chronically disruptive students. (JW)

A retributive perspective, in which punishment must be the response to a misdeed regardless of the misdeed's consequences, provides a more substantive approach to the disruptive student than does the presently accepted rehabilitation-utilitarian perspective, which only advocates the punishment of misdeeds that do not promote institutional goals.…

Debate exists over the appropriate role of the regional accreditation agency in higher education. Some feel the agencies do colleges and universities a favor by holding them to specific standards, and others feel the agencies were not intended for a consumer protection function. Accreditation criteria, quantifiable and subjective, are also…

Reviews court litigation in 1999 related to disciplinary and academic decisions. Overall, the courts continued to defer to the university's decisions regarding student behavior, especially if the decisions were classified as academic, and especially in cases where the universities followed guidelines they had established in their student…

No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has been proclaimed by some as a reform that will improve education for students from all backgrounds, in all locations. The main components of NCLB, however, are biased against students in small and rural schools. This bias, called "placism," discriminates against people based on where they live. This rural…

Its focus on holding schools accountable for student achievement on standardized assessments sets NCLB apart from previous versions of the law. The more severe consequences for schools that do not show the necessary improvements in student achievement--such as restructuring and state takeovers--loom just around the corner. Many educators are…

A non-cushioned adequate yearly progress (AYP) sledgehammer will start pounding many schools from the beginning of 2005. The AYP-failed schools that receive Title 1 No Child Behind Policy (NCLB) funds will be placed on a sanction-laden improvement track than can improve a school all the way into nonexistence.

This study examines whether the results of standardized tests are distorted when rewards and sanctions are attached to them, making them high-stakes tests. It measures the correlation in school-level test results -- including both score levels and year-to-year score changes -- on high-stakes and low-stakes tests administered in the same schools in…

In this article, the author focuses on the relationship between "political correctness" and academic freedom during wartime. The first part attempts to clarify the idea of political correctness, with special reference to times of war. The second explores the relationship between academic freedom and discrimination against certain points of view,…

The United States is currently involved in a continuing controversy about how best to measure the education of children. President Bush and his Administration have pushed for a bevy of standardized assessments, the results of which would be used to reward high-scoring schools and punish low-scoring ones. State departments of education and school…

This paper uses the first nationally representative survey of teacher absence collected through direct observation to determine the patterns of absence among full-time teachers in public primary schools in Indonesia. Based on the survey data, the authors found a national teacher absence rate of 19%, with almost half of the absences due to…

Objective: The authors examined college student support for policies and enforcement strategies to reduce alcohol problems on campus. Participants: A random sample of students from each of 32 four-year colleges and universities participated. Methods: Students completed an anonymous mail survey. Results: A majority of students supported 5 of the 12…

Background/Context: School sanctioning policies that allow for external intervention into and closure of low-performing schools have become central components of the current educational accountability movement. Recent studies indicate that these policies compel principals and teachers to alter school and classroom practices in ways that target…

Combating corruption is an important condition for bringing about the flourishing of academic research. There are many reasons for the emergence and proliferation of academic corruption today. These are closely related to the long-term lack of training among our country's scholars in modern academic standards and the absence of an academic spirit…