This paper describes the relationship between student identity, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and risk for receiving calls home for problems in school. Data are drawn from the 2017 to 2018 National Survey of Children's Health (n = 4,579). Critical race theory and QuantCrit were used to frame the study and analysis. Findings reflect that…

Our study uses an interdisciplinary theoretical lens to understand the complexity of community building as a precursor to restorative practices. Key to these measures is that offenders take responsibility for their actions and undergo reintegration into the school community. Yet, until these students feel they belong to the school community in the…

University discipline is an important object of legislative and administrative action in the higher education sector. There have been two waves of concern with university discipline in the post-war period, especially in respect of students: first, in the period of post-war university expansion; second, in the period of commercialisation post-1988.…

Conducted study about disciplinary counseling from national sample of counseling center directors (n=115). Results showed ambivalence about provision of disciplinary counseling. Approximately 37% of respondents noted increase in disciplinary referrals. Organizational matters and student pathology appeared to be salient factors in rise of…

Examined campus disciplinary officers and environment in which they operate, incorporating existing research with survey designed to provide accurate picture of the organizational and administrative practices surrounding student disciplinary codes. Findings from 327 members of the Association for Student Judicial Affairs suggest that student…

University and college campuses in the United States utilize disciplinary/judicial processes to help address student behavioral problems. These include administrative, majority-peer, and minority-peer processes. This descriptive research was undertaken to find which of these three discipline/judicial processes were the most effective. The…

Describes Preventive Discipline Project, which uses self-control curriculum keyed to school situations that require students to demonstrate self-control. Focuses on five foundations of self-control: controlling impulses, assessing social reality, managing group situations, coping with stress, and solving social problems. Concludes that social…

This study compares current practices in student disciplinary actions at both private and public colleges and universities from a survey conducted over ten years ago of such practices in the public sector. The data analysis and review form the basis for recommendations for further change in the administration of student discipline. (Author)

Describes the Alternative Rehabilitation Program at Horner Junior High School (Pennsylvania). This program takes problem students out of regular classrooms so that students who want to learn no longer suffer from classroom disruptions. (MD)

Characterizes instructional practices that prevent discipline problems by encouraging learning and appropriate behavior from behavior analytic perspective. Notes that basic assumption of this perspective is that effective teaching strategies also serve managerial functions through development of stimulus control and management of behavioral…

This document describes the work of the Pupil Services Branch of the Maryland State Department of Education in its efforts to assist school districts and individual schools in the state in examining the causes of student disruption and in developing programs that are aimed at impacting disruptive students and creating more effective schools. A…

Reviews literature since Dixon v. Alabama State Board of Education (1961) decision. Notes scholarship moving away from discussing purpose and utility of adversarial proceedings, trend that may work against best interests of those institutions. Argues that research should consider the personal incentive mechanisms inherent in a structured…

This analysis of a November 2001 case in Botetourt County, Virginia, looks at whether the Fourth Amendment right against an unreasonable "seizure" or the 14th Amendment "liberty" for parents to control the care and custody of their children requires a ban on, or at least immediate notification regarding, detentions of a…

Reports from the United Kingdom show increases in the rate of student suspensions and exclusions. An overview of how policy makers are addressing student problems is presented here. The report focuses on education policy makers' proclivity to address student disruption through exclusion from school. It is claimed that suspensions and other forms…