The courts have established that students have a right to due process when they are suspended from school for disciplinary reasons, since suspension involves depriving the student of his entitlement to an education. When grade reduction is used for punishing absence or tardiness or to discourage unacceptable behavior, must due process also be…

This document provides guidelines for interpreting the proposed amendment to the Swedish Children and Parents Code concerning the punishment of children: "A child may not be subjected to corporal punishment or other injurious treatment." Prohibition of forcible correction is intended to protect the child not only against bodily injuries…

This guide, intended for participants in the second course of the National School Resource Network Core Curriculum, contains an activity/content summary for each module of the course, worksheets, and background materials. The overall goal for the unit is to enhance the awareness of the participants about the contemporary issues and practices…

To comply with a 1975 memo from the Office for Civil Rights, the Seaford Senior High School in Seaford, Delaware, was required to maintain records on all student discipline actions. These records consisted of student disciplinary case reports designated by case file numbers. In addition, all discipline actions were to be logged by racial or ethnic…

Recent empirical research identifies a potential area of both role and organizational conflict for the middle school principal and perhaps all principals. Findings from a role norm inventory reveal that middle school principals do not perceive the relative importance of disciplining pupils, while teachers--significant members of their role…

This study examines the effect of parental socialization forces on children's learning of antisocial behavior from television portrayals. The intervening variables are the patterns of parental disciplinary practices and general interaction with their children in their everyday life. Two types of parental styles were identified: induction,…

This study investigated the interaction of child and parent gender with child responsiveness in determining parents' later selection of discipline. Participants were 40 parents and their preschool children (ten pairs each of mother/daughter, mother/son, father/daughter, and father/son combinations). After being separated from his or her child,…

Classroom management is discussed in terms of effective instruction, successful group management, maximum use of space, time, and resources, meaningful discipline, student rights, and change strategies. The discussion of effective instruction stresses appropriateness, completeness, clarity, and a variety of lessons. Techniques for successful group…

In 1975-76, 26 institutionally administered tests gave students at the University of Texas at Austin the chance to earn credits for 52 lower division courses in 15 departments: anthropology, biology, chemistry, communication, English, French, German, government, history, Latin, mathematics, physics, psychology, Russian, and Spanish. Results were…

The teacher in the school of tomorrow will have a variety of roles. One of the more important will be that of diagnostician. Perceptive assistance for the teacher as diagnostician is available from the school psychologist, the social caseworker, the guidance worker, and the reading clinician. The services of all district personnel should be…

Many students seek and many administrators have called for greater student involvement in important academic decision making. And because faculty members, who control most academic policies and procedures, have remained strangely silent about such matters, it was decided to investigate, in a more detailed and systematic fashion than had been done…

This paper provides Minnesota school administrators with a guide for dealing with student expulsion, primarily those cases resulting from discipline problems. Under law, only a board of education can expel a pupil. The two general areas in which expulsion may be justified are offenses committed on school property during school hours, and offenses…

Two methods of scheduling reinforcement, differential reinforcement of other behaviors (DRO) and differential reinforcement of low rates of responding (DRL), were investigated in two experiments that demonstrated each procedure's effectiveness in reducing misbehavior when used by teachers in school settings. A third experiment was undertaken to…

Forty-four 5th graders and their mothers were interviewed about parental discipline practices toward the child. Responses were coded as indicating parental use of power assertion, love-withdrawal, or teaching (induction). Mother-child agreement and the interrelationships among the discipline types are discussed. Sex of child, measures of SES, and…

This handbook discusses the various aspects of discipline (defined as the teaching of a child to behave in ways that the parent considers desirable and avoid behaving in ways the parent considers undesirable). The guide discusses the Adlerian approach to disciplining children, which stresses democracy in the family on the basis of the equality of…