Download or read book An Analysis of Alternative to suspension Programs and Their Effectiveness in California Public High Schools written by Richard Bruce Blaettler and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Comparative Study of In school Suspension and Out of School Suspension at the Middle Level written by Laura Whitehouse and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Closing the School Discipline Gap written by Daniel J. Losen and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educators remove over 3.45 million students from school annually for disciplinary reasons, despite strong evidence that school suspension policies are harmful to students. The research presented in this volume demonstrates that disciplinary policies and practices that schools control directly exacerbate today's profound inequities in educational opportunity and outcomes. Part I explores how suspensions flow along the lines of race, gender, and disability status. Part II examines potential remedies that show great promise, including a district-wide approach in Cleveland, Ohio, aimed at social and emotional learning strategies. Closing the School Discipline Gap is a call for action that focuses on an area in which public schools can and should make powerful improvements, in a relatively short period of time. Contributors include Robert Balfanz, Jamilia Blake, Dewey Cornell, Jeremy D. Finn, Thalia González, Anne Gregory, Daniel J. Losen, David M. Osher, Russell J. Skiba, Ivory A. Toldson “Closing the School Discipline Gap can make an enormous difference in reducing disciplinary exclusions across the country. This book not only exposes unsound practices and their disparate impact on the historically disadvantaged, but provides educators, policymakers, and community advocates with an array of remedies that are proven effective or hold great promise. Educators, communities, and students alike can benefit from the promising interventions and well-grounded recommendations.” —Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, Stanford University “For over four decades school discipline policies and practices in too many places have pushed children out of school, especially children of color. Closing the School Discipline Gap shows that adults have the power—and responsibility—to change school climates to better meet the needs of children. This volume is a call to action for policymakers, educators, parents, and students.” —Marian Wright Edelman, president, Children’s Defense Fund

Download or read book The Effects of Using Restorative Justice in Alternative Education High Schools written by Lori Gattuso and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improving student behavior is one of the most significant challenges schools face today. In an effort to improve student behavior and reduce suspension rates, many schools are adopting less punitive discipline programs based on the Restorative Justice principles that were established in the criminal justice system. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effectiveness of Restorative Justice in decreasing the number of suspensions in an alternative education high school setting. The study examined the total number of full and partial day, off-campus suspensions between students who attending an alternative education high school during the 2011–2012 academic year when a Restorative Justice program was not in place and the students who attended an alternative high school during the 2014–2015 academic year when a Restorative Justice program was in place. The hypotheses stated there would not be a significant difference in the reduction of full or partial day, off-campus suspensions. Through statistical analysis, this researcher discovered that the results of t-tests for independent samples indicated that there was a significant difference in the number of full days (p

Download or read book American Doctoral Dissertations written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book In school Alternatives to Suspension written by Antoine M. Garibaldi and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Analysis of Alternative to Out of school Suspension Programs in Los Angeles County Schools with Middle Grade Students written by George E. Jaeger and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book California s Continuation Schools Research Summary written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 10% of California's public high school students attend some kind of alternative program. This brief summarizes the initial research study from the California Alternative Education Research Project, which examines continuation schools specifically. It summarizes "Alternative Education Options: A Descriptive Study of California Continuation High Schools," an initial research study by the California Alternative Education Research Project. The brief examines the study's findings about the students who attend these programs and their academic achievement, and it also describes their basic structure and the policy context for these schools, the largest of California's alternative programs. In addition, this brief summarizes the group's research regarding dramatic variations in the quality of California's continuation high schools and provides some insights into what distinguishes those that are most successful. (Contains 1 figure.).

Download or read book Building Effective Learning Environments in California s Continuation High Schools Issue Brief written by Susan C. Bush and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue brief is part of a larger study of California continuation high schools begun in 2007. While the first phase of the study examined various alternative education options throughout the state, this second phase focused on 23 higher performing continuation high schools in California selected based on multiple student outcome measures. This issue brief is specifically intended to reach the community of school-based practitioners and district level policymakers, seeking to better understand alternative schooling for over-aged and under-credited youth. During the first phase of the study, teachers discussed their struggle in balancing student engagement with academic rigor of instruction for this unique population of students. These teachers called out for increased research on the unique context and better practices of continuation high school instruction. To that end, this paper highlights creative work-arounds that successful continuation schools, principals, and teachers implement to serve this unique population of students, despite highly restricted state funding. In particular, this paper emphasizes the importance of operationally aligning these practices to balance competing objectives (e.g., vocational vs. college preparatory programs). (Contains 4 figures and 3 footnotes.).

Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.

Download or read book Improving Alternative Education in California written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book More Courageous Conversations About Race written by Glenn E. Singleton and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Since the highly acclaimed Courageous Conversations About Race offered educators a frame work and tools for promoting racial equity, many schools have implemented the Courageous Conversations Protocol. Now ... in a book that's rich with anecdote, Singleton celebrates the successes, outlines the difficulties, and provides specific strategies for moving Courageous Conversations from racial equity theory to practice at every level, from the classroom to the school superintendent's office"--Back cover.

Download or read book A Descriptive Study of Alternatives to Out of school Suspension Programs Utilized in High Schools in Los Angeles County written by Gary Gonzales and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Study of the Implementation of the Mandate for Alternative Modes of Instruction in AB 65 for California Comprehensive Public High Schools written by Zelta Lyn Steg and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Impact of a High School Restorative Justice Program on Student Suspensions and Attendance written by Dan Saldate and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improving student behavior is a challenge for many schools. Efforts to improve student behavior and reduce suspension rates have become an emphasis at many schools. Schools that seek improvement in this area are adopting less punitive discipline programs based on the Restorative Justice principles. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effectiveness of Restorative Justice in decreasing the number of suspensions and days of school attended at a charter high school in the central valley. The study examined the total number of full off-campus suspensions among students who attended the central valley high school selected for this study during the 2015-16 academic year when a Restorative Justice program was not in place and the 2016–17 academic year when a Restorative Justice program was in place. The null hypotheses stated there was no significant change in the reduction of full off-campus suspensions and no significant change in the number of days attended by students one year after the implementation of a Restorative Justice discipline program. The results of paired sample t-tests indicated that there was a significant change in the number of full day off campus suspensions (p

Download or read book Examining the Impact of a Restorative Justice Practice Implementation on School Climate in an Urban High School in the State of California written by Oladapo Adekunle Ariyo and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite widespread acknowledgment about the viability of alternative behavioral interventions in our urban high schools across the nation, there is scarcity in research studies that specifically examine the impact of restorative justice practices on school climate. This mixed method study used a case study research design to examine the impact on school climate of the implementation of a restorative justice (RJ) practice in an urban high school in the State of California. Data were collected using interviews, survey, district documents and school site archival documents. Triangulation of data from these sources was used to validate the research findings. The high school chosen, California City High School (CCHS), a pseudonym, was a public high school located in a southeastern neighborhood of a large metropolitan city in southern California. District documents indicated that the school was in its third year of RJ implementation having completed the training necessary to facilitate the shift from traditional approaches of behavior management to a RJ approach, making this school a good fit for the study. This study highlighted the use of restorative circles and community building, and positive behavior support as the most pragmatic and effective RJ practices in the CCHS school environment. Students who have undergone restorative circles, and community building mediations, are perceived by teachers and administrator as exhibiting improved behavioral decision-making, and lower levels of recidivism when compared to similar age students before implementation of restorative circles. The school district's disciplinary data of 2007 through 2014 showed a marked decline in both instructional days lost to suspension and suspension rate following the implementation of restorative justice practices. Problems encountered during implementation at this school site involved inadequate and inconsistent training methodologies, time constraints for implementation, metrics for rating implementation success, and staff's attitude to change. This study would have benefited from the inclusion of data from additional schools and from parent and student interviews. The inclusion of additional schools would have enabled the analysis of staff perceptions at the school level. Hence, future studies should employ data from a larger number of schools to cross-validate the current findings. Some limitations should be noted when drawing conclusions from this research. The study examined staff and teacher survey and discipline referrals during three years of RJ implementation at CCHS. However, I did not have outsider observers to verify quality of RJ implementation, which many consider the "gold standard" for measuring fidelity of implementation. Also given CCHS has only been implementing its RJ program across a 3-year period, this study may not have captured the full effect of RJ implementation on school climate. Similar to most of the school climate research, this study was neither longitudinal nor experimental. This is a problem for the research because causal inferences are not possible. Future studies examining causal relationships with interventions or a longitudinal design are clearly warranted. A longitudinal design would also account for the fact that school climate perception is not static. It potentially changes and evolves during different points in the school year (e.g., proximity to holiday periods or examination periods) and corresponding with different events at the school (e.g., administrative changes or the introduction of a new initiative). Hence, longitudinal designs should be adopted in future research, as they would account for the impermanency of school climate perception.