Reviews key Supreme Court decisions on free speech rights of public employees. Advises school administrators to be vigilant in discipline or dismissal cases where freedom of speech is an issue. (MD)

Describes a disciplinary technique based on a Student Behavior Report that involves immediate feedback for student infractions and cooperation from administrators, teachers, parents, and students. (MD)

Describes a successful disciplinary project that helps prevent delinquency through an organized in-school suspension and counseling program. (MD)

A teacher, responding to the commission and task force criticism of education, points out that for real educational improvement to take place, critics must communicate with teachers. (MD)

Proposes a model of classroom management that provides four levels of restriction--the more undisciplined a student is, the more restrictive are the measures applied. (PGD)

President Reagan lists six steps for returning excellence to American education: restore discipline, end drug and alcohol abuse, raise academic standards, encourage good teaching, restore local control, and teach the basics. (MD)

Describes an alternative, relaxed, discipline system with four simple rules: (1) use mild consequences initially, (2) enforce rules without anger, (3) track each student infraction, and (4) reward frequently but unpredictably. (MD)

Reflects on the status of communication study since 1959 when Bernard Berelson announced that communication research was "withering away." Addresses the development of the discipline and the issue of "ferment in the field." (PD)

Reports on a survey of more than 200 middle grade teachers concerning their perceptions of the state of student behavior and misbehavior in the classroom. (FL)

Reviews the literature on child compliance from two theoretical perspectives, social learning theory and the ethological-evolutionary model, with an emphasis on the link between an adult's supportiveness and sensitivity and a child's level of compliance. Strategies for practitioners, based on the research, are suggested. (Author/JAC)

The author, who wrote "Tarka the Otter," remembers what it was like to be "the worst boy in the school" some seventy years ago. (Editor/RK)

A nutrition week in schools can be a useful motivation when used by a home economics teacher to involve all students and teachers in nutrition education. Summarized are suggestions for activities, demonstrations, and discussions for various classes, listed according to subject areas. (MS)

To alleviate disciplinary problems in the classroom, teachers' self-examination is proposed. A profile analysis is offered, with a list of criteria, followed by comments and a rating scale. Suggestions are added for teacher training in this area. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Since the 1980's, fear of school violence has driven American public education toward increasingly punitive and exclusionary methods of school discipline. Yet recent research has begun to raise serious questions about the effectiveness and equity of suspension and expulsion. Despite such controversy concerning the use and effectiveness of…

The purpose of this paper is to trace the history of athletic training education as an academic discipline, showing how formal education has evolved for professionals in the field of athletic training. The roots of athletic training education can be traced to the mid-1950s. From that period, athletic training has changed immensely, and the field…