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Book Removal  Isolation  and Discipline in Texas Schools

Download or read book Removal Isolation and Discipline in Texas Schools written by Jessica L. Dunning-Lozano and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation investigates the school-level impact of punitive zero-tolerance education policies through an ethnographic study of the daily practices in place at a 6th - 12th grade Disciplinary Alternative Education Program (DAEP) in Texas. This is the first ethnography of a public DAEP in Texas, a product of zero-tolerance policy designed to punish and secondly to educate. The analysis draws from a rich set of data consisting of 27 months of participant observations, 12 of these months as a substitute teacher, 90 in-depth interviews with program staff, students, parents, student survey, and an archive of student disciplinary documents. The study addresses four research questions: 1) How does the penetration of the carceral arm of the criminal justice system into public schools affect the quality of education? 2) How is discipline accomplished in this program, specifically, what are its forms, how does it vary, what is the extent of its operation, and what are its effects? 3) How does this experience vary by race, gender, class, and citizenship status? And 4) How do these disciplinary practices impact teachers, students, and families? DAEPs have little state over site, a dropout rate five times higher than mainstream schools in Texas, and have become a more common academic transition point for boys, Latinos, black, and low-income youth. This in-depth study of a DAEP offers a nuanced understanding of the form, effects, variation, and extension of discipline within and beyond the program's bounds, and contributes to our understanding of the micro-effects of punitive school policies on children, their families, and school authorities. Additionally, it examines one way the punitive state exerts discipline over marginalized youth populations through disciplinary school practices. Lastly, the dissertation provides the knowledge needed to improve the educational experiences of the most vulnerable youth populations.

Book Disciplinary Inequity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Troy Laine Pitsch
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book Disciplinary Inequity written by Troy Laine Pitsch and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American students are being excluded from the classroom in public schools at rates disproportionately higher than other student subgroups. This is being done by campus administrators using a practice known as ‘Discretionary Removal’ which allows them to remove students for disciplinary purposes. These removals are damaging to student learning and achievement, and further widen the learning gap between African American students and other races. Additionally, they have been shown to contribute to additional involvement in school disciplinary processes, an increased risk of dropping out, incarceration, and limited economic opportunity for large numbers of African Americans. In Texas public schools the implementation of certain provisions of Texas Education Code Chapter 37, namely the use of discretionary removal as a disciplinary consequence, has impacted students unequally for decades depending on their race. Current rates of removal for African American students in Texas are two-and-a-half times greater on average than any other student group. This disproportionality has been amplified by increased rates of discretionary removal overall among Texas public schools, adding yet another dimension to this complex issue. This qualitative case study attempts to demonstrate that the policies designed to help manage student behavior are not race-neutral, because the processes used to implement them are relatively arbitrary, responsive to student race and, therefore, inequitable. The value of this study lies in the interrogation of a subjective power that is widely used by school officials in Texas more often against Black students, with the assumption that schools are better when students who violate the code of conduct are removed. As we continue to develop an understanding about the racial gap in student discipline and the negative impact of student suspensions, it is imperative to evaluate the processes that drive decisions by school administrators to punish some students more harshly than others.

Book Corporal Punishment in U S  Public Schools

Download or read book Corporal Punishment in U S Public Schools written by Elizabeth T. Gershoff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Brief reviews the past, present, and future use of school corporal punishment in the United States, a practice that remains legal in 19 states as it is constitutionally permitted according to the U.S. Supreme Court. As a result of school corporal punishment, nearly 200,000 children are paddled in schools each year. Most Americans are unaware of this fact or the physical injuries sustained by countless school children who are hit with objects by school personnel in the name of discipline. Therefore, Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools begins by summarizing the legal basis for school corporal punishment and trends in Americans’ attitudes about it. It then presents trends in the use of school corporal punishment in the United States over time to establish its past and current prevalence. It then discusses what is known about the effects of school corporal punishment on children, though with so little research on this topic, much of the relevant literature is focused on parents’ use of corporal punishment with their children. It also provides results from a policy analysis that examines the effect of state-level school corporal punishment bans on trends in juvenile crime. It concludes by discussing potential legal, policy, and advocacy avenues for abolition of school corporal punishment at the state and federal levels as well as summarizing how school corporal punishment is being used and what its potential implications are for thousands of individual students and for the society at large. As school corporal punishment becomes more and more regulated at the state level, Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools serves an essential guide for policymakers and advocates across the country as well as for researchers, scientist-practitioners, and graduate students.

Book The Educator s Guide to Texas School Law

Download or read book The Educator s Guide to Texas School Law written by Jim Walsh and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has changed in the area of school law since the first edition of The Educator's Guide was published in 1986. Successive editions grew incrementally longer to keep abreast of legal developments. In this new eighth edition, the authors have streamlined the discussion by pruning older material and weaving in new developments. The result is an authoritative source on all major dimensions of Texas school law that is both well integrated and easy to read. Intended for Texas school personnel, school board members, interested attorneys, and taxpayers, the eighth edition explains what the law is and what the implications are for effective school operations. It is designed to help professional educators avoid expensive and time consuming lawsuits by taking effective preventive action. It is an especially valuable resource for school law courses and staff development sessions. The eighth edition begins with a review of the legal structure of the Texas school system. As Chapter 1 notes, education law is a complex interweaving of state and federal constitutional, statutory, administrative, and judicial law. It is important to understand the nature of the system before reading other sections. Successive chapters address attendance and the instructional program, the education of children with special needs, employment and personnel, expression and associational rights, the role of religion in public schools, student discipline, open meetings and records, privacy, search and seizure, and legal liability under both federal and Texas law. In addition to state law, the book addresses the role of the federal government in school operation through such major federal legislation as the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Statute and case references are kept as simple as possible, and a complete index of case citations is included for those readers who wish to consult the cases themselves. The appendices describe how case law is reported and where to find it, along with a glossary of legal terms and a listing of other sources on Texas school law.

Book Closing the School Discipline Gap

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

Book Discipline  Achievement  and Race

Download or read book Discipline Achievement and Race written by Augustina H. Reyes and published by R & L Education. This book was released on 2006 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, inequalities in public education are evident in the number of Black and Latino students who are held back, fail to graduate from high school, or have been removed from school by unforgiving zero-tolerance discipline policies. Augustina H. Reyes contends that when ineffective zero-tolerance discipline policies disproportionately remove minority and low-income students from schools, the very roots of a democracy are threatened. It is important for educators to understand the effects of zero-tolerance discipline policies on low-income students, at-risk students, special education students, and students of color. It is equally important that educators critically investigate the effects of zero-tolerance discipline policies, re-evaluate the use of these policies in public schools. Discipline, Achievement, and Race offers a comprehensive analysis of policy and practice and recommends solutions to the exclusionary discipline policies of zero tolerance. It will be of interest to teachers, principals and assistant, principals, counselors, and concerned parents. Book jacket.

Book Supportive Discipline is Here to Stay

Download or read book Supportive Discipline is Here to Stay written by Christopher David DeLosSantos and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discipline models employed in U.S. schools tend to swing back and forth like a slow pendulum. Following the tragic shootings at Columbine in 1999, districts around the U.S. began to employ policies now known as zero tolerance. By the middle of the 2000s decade, Texas school districts and state legislators — progressive and conservative alike — realized that zero tolerance no longer worked. Together, lawmakers, regional education service centers and school districts began to roll back zero tolerance. Gradually, educators implemented aa variety of supportive discipline methods across the state. By the time of the 2014 Federal letter from the civil rights offices in the Education and Justice Departments, Texas schools had already made great headway in reducing exclusionary discipline while simultaneously improving student behavior. Texas can be a model for other states. This is a 6800 word piece of longform journalism, written to be suitable for publication in a magazine such as Texas Monthly or The New Yorker

Book The Educator s Guide to Texas School Law

Download or read book The Educator s Guide to Texas School Law written by Frank R. Kemerer and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended for all Texas school personnel--superintendents, principals, teachers, supervisors, counselors, and coaches--as well as school board members and school law attorneys. The authors endeavor to explain in lay language what the law is and what the implications are for effective school operation.

Book Restorative Discipline Practices

Download or read book Restorative Discipline Practices written by Gaye Lang and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on Restorative Discipline Practices (RDP) will provide anecdotes and process stories by authors from diverse backgrounds including: classroom teachers, school administrators, campus coordinators, juvenile justice officials, community leaders and university professors.It will be an inspiration and reference for educators as they begin or continue to implement RDP in the schools.

Book Judicial Misconduct and Discipline

Download or read book Judicial Misconduct and Discipline written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Texas Disciplinary Alternative Education Programs

Download or read book Texas Disciplinary Alternative Education Programs written by Kathy Erin Martinez-Prather and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of exclusionary discipline practices, which involves the removal of the student from the educational environment, continues to be a response used by schools for addressing student misconduct or delinquency. A major concern of stakeholders is that these types of discipline approaches may end up producing more negative outcomes for students (e.g., involvement in the criminal justice system or dropping out). Disciplinary Alternative Education Programs (DAEPs), a type of exclusionary discipline, are one of the more widely used tools used by schools. However, limited research has been conducted to understand how these programs operate and impact students. The purpose of this study was to understand the types of practices and support systems that are being implemented in DAEPs in Texas. Further, this study examined the relationship between program characteristics of a DAEP and its impact on recidivism to a DAEP. A mixed-methods approach was conducted. Specifically, an online survey was administered to DAEP principals to gather information on the types of practices implemented and an examination of the relationship with the rate of student recidivism. Next, follow-up interviews were conducted with DAEP principals from campuses that were found to have the highest and lowest student return rates to their DAEP.

Book The Prison School

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lizbet Simmons
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 0520281454
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book The Prison School written by Lizbet Simmons and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Public Schools in a Punitive Era -- 2. The "At-Risk Youth Industry"--3. Undereducated and Overcriminalized in New Orleans -- 4. The Prison School -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index

Book Ending the School to prison Pipeline

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  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 860 pages

Download or read book Ending the School to prison Pipeline written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Zero Tolerance Discipline Policies in Texas Schools

Download or read book Zero Tolerance Discipline Policies in Texas Schools written by Hector D. Chapa and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis will examine the results of a quantitative analysis of aggregate level discipline data in both rural and urban Texas schools. The purpose is to examine zero tolerance discipline policies and determine if variations in discipline types are influenced by race or ethnicity. It will also examine possible variations between rural and urban discipline types. The data used for this analysis was collected using the Academic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS) and the Discipline Data Report (DDR) which were both taken from the Texas Education Agency (TEA) web site. Inferences were able to be drawn that indicate race is more of a factor in discipline than socioeconomic status. It was also found that special education status is more of a predictor than socioeconomic status in determining disciplinary placements.

Book Digest of Opinions

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  • Author : United States. Army. Judge Advocate General's Department
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1932
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1316 pages

Download or read book Digest of Opinions written by United States. Army. Judge Advocate General's Department and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 1316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The School to Prison Pipeline

Download or read book The School to Prison Pipeline written by Catherine Y. Kim and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the relationship between the law and the school-to-prison pipeline, argues that law can be an effective weapon in the struggle to reduce the number of children caught, and discusses the consequences on families and communities.

Book Wrightslaw

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  • Author : Peter W. D. Wright
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Wrightslaw written by Peter W. D. Wright and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at parents of and advocates for special needs children, explains how to develop a relationship with a school, monitor a child's progress, understand relevant legislation, and document correspondence and conversations.