School discipline has two main goals:(1) ensure the safety of staff and students, and (2)
create an environment conducive to learning. Serious student misconduct involving violent …

Discipline within schools is becoming an increasing priority. School coun-selors, together
with other education professionals, acknowledge that productive schools need effective …

Professor Hill Walker has identified three challenges to handling disruptive student
behavior: prevention, at-risk programs, and high-intensity interventions. Principals should …

Many educators and parents are gravely concerned about disorder and danger in school
environments. In addition to school discipline issues, American classrooms are frequently …

Research into criminal activity in United States schools has provided evidence that helps
explain students' and teachers' attitudes toward schools. Information on changes in …

School personnel typically highlight their discipline regulations in policies called codes of
conduct. Discipline codes of conduct are documents that contain the schoolwide discipline …

In the search for predictors of school violence, attention has often rested on school
discipline, both as an indicator of safe and orderly school campuses and as individual …

MARLENE GREER-CHASE, WARREN A. RHODES, and SHEPPARD G. KELIAM n an
article in The Clearing House nearly fifteen years I ago, Thomas R. McDaniel's discussion of …

This article reports results from a survey conducted in a probability sample of US public,
private, and Catholic schools to obtain information about the nature and extent of activity to …

IN April 1998, a fifteen-year-old female student at Roosevelt High School in Yonkers, New
York, was upset because her social-studies teacher, Dawn Jawrower, had telephoned her …