Social scientists are generally in agreement that spanking is not an especially effective method of discipline and is associated with a variety of behavioral and mental health problems in children. Interventions that have focused on disseminating this empirical research have met with some success in changing pro-spanking attitudes. However, given…

Every day administrators and teachers issue increasing numbers of disciplinary referrals that document problematic behaviors in the classroom. When placed in in-school suspension (ISS) because of disciplinary reasons students lose valuable academic instruction time and their academic achievement is negatively impacted. ISS produces little, if any,…

This study examined the classroom discipline orientations of pre-service elementary teachers both before and after the student teaching experience. Prior to beginning and immediately after completing their full-time student teaching experience, pre-service teachers (N = 220) from three southeastern universities in the USA completed a discipline…