The Gun-Free Schools Act (GFSA) requires that each state or territory receiving federal funds under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) have a state law that requires all local educational agencies (LEAs) in the state or territory to expel from school for at least one year any student found bringing a firearm to school. (See Appendix…

Setting limits is one of the most difficult challenges parents face. In this 27-minute videotape, renowned pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton shows parents that setting limits is not punishment, but rather a loving way to teach a child how to control his or her own behavior. Highlighting parents interacting with their infants and toddlers in a…

The Gun Free Schools Act (GFSA) requires states to report information about the implementation of the act annually to the Secretary of Education. This report starts by presenting information on data interpretation and quality. Three sections summarize the 1998-99 data submitted by the states. The first section is a brief summary of the overall…

Describes the procedural inequities and confusion of purpose of juvenile court system in dealing with juvenile status offenders and juvenile criminals, and addresses the problem of the vast discretionary power of the courts. Suggests some principles by which a fair system of juvenile justice may be achieved. (SF)

Article shows four basic approaches for using discipline and nine strategies for preventing discipline problems in the classroom. (RK)

From a paper presented at annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, December 27, 1969. (IR)

Focuses on the concept of belief as a social bond in relationship to marijuana use among adolescents. Results of a survey of 571 junior and senior high school students showed that perception of certainty of apprehension and association with a nonmarijuana-using group were effective deterents. (JAC)

In a survey regarding the intensity and frequency of methods of corporal punishment students have received and of the persons administering it, corporal punishment is shown to be used normatively for behavioral management. Males received greater punishment, especially from their fathers. Lower grades and greater problems, such as aggression and…

Australian secondary students were asked to list five crimes they had heard of, their source of information, and their views on appropriate punishment. A systematic relationship was found between these three elements. Justifications made for mitigating circumstances were analyzed for type of crime and by attribution theories. (Author/SJL)

Undergraduate females were or were not provoked by a confederate, and then required to discipline a girl who was pretty or was unattractive; or to discipline a boy who stuttered or one who spoke normally. The undesirable physical characteristics provoked stronger punishment, especially when subjects were angry. (Author/GDC)

Mothers', fathers', and peers' differential reward and punishment of 3- and 5-year-old children's sex-typed behaviors were examined using a laboratory analog of a natural play context. Implications for social learning and reciprocal-role development are explored and a social network perspective on children's social development is discussed.…

This article surveys educational environments and philosophies of school discipline from the colonial era through the twentieth century to illustrate that students have always been considered difficult to control. (Suthor/SJL)

A questionnaire on discipline and classroom management was administered to 203 students at Dundee College of Education in April, 1978. Areas covered included attitudes toward teaching practice, punishments and rewards observed in schools, opinions on the college's treatment of the topic, and subjects' views on various disciplinary techniques.…

Describes instances of harassment, including harassment of teachers by students, and discusses harassment as a sign system that has structure, folkloric elements, a wide paradigmatic range, behavioral effects on the receiver, and meaning beyond the normal significance of the sign. (GT)

The behavior modification procedure, carried out at mealtime with a ten-year-old retarded boy who had spastic cerebral palsy, consisted of differential reinforcement and punishment, and resulted in substantial decreases in tongue thrust (reverse swallowing) and food expulsion, and a large increase in observed chewing. (Author/DLS)