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Zero Tolerance Discipline Policies and School Bus Safety

Author : Anthony Williams

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Page : 226 pages

File Size : 20,41 MB

Release : 2017

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The job of the school bus driver is one of the toughest jobs in Winn County Public Schools (WCPS) district, specifically at Xavier Elementary School (XES). The purpose of the school bus is to transport student riders in a safe and orderly manner daily. This mixed methods research study examines the role of the bus driver in the larger school-community context and how bus ride infractions affect learning outcomes. This study also examines the impact of zero-tolerance discipline policies on school bus safety. An interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) approach (Reid, Flowers, & Larkin, 2005) was utilized to collect and triangulate data from a focus group, semi-structured interviews, baseline local school bus discipline data, a questionnaire, and observations of bus drivers, while transporting students. The school bus driver is responsible for providing an orderly bus environment where students can have more positive thoughts about learning and fewer concerns about violence. The XES Action Research (AR) team implemented an effective school-wide bus intervention program to reduce the number of violent infractions on the school bus, minimize bus suspensions, while improving the student learning outcomes on the Quarterly District Assessments (QDA), as compared to the neighboring elementary schools. Findings suggest that bus safety is paramount to the start of each day of teaching and learning.



Zero Tolerance Discipline Policies

Author : Brian Schoonover

Publisher : iUniverse

Page : 170 pages

File Size : 26,66 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Education

ISBN : 1440110735

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Mandatory punishments for disciplinary offenses have been included in school districts' Student Codes of Conduct since it was mandated by the Gun Free Schools Act of 1994. While zero tolerance policies were initially created to protect students and teachers from gun attacks in schools, the way in which these policies have actually been implemented in schools has prompted some parents, educators, and politicians to challenge them and call for zero tolerance policy reform. Since 1994, a majority of school districts have expanded their use of zero tolerance policies to include infractions other than those included to keep guns out of schools. Zero Tolerance Discipline Policies, the first comprehensive study of its kind, conducted by author Dr. Brian James Schoonover, examines the history of zero tolerance policies, including the practice of adding offenses other than the possession of guns to these policies. With practical, action oriented recommendations on ways policymakers and educational leaders can improve how students are disciplined, Zero Tolerance Discipline Policies offers recommendations on what should be included in a model Student Code of Conduct as well as a recommendation for starting a Three CHANCE (Changing Habits After New Character Education) system of educational placements to ensure all students are educated in a safe and appropriate facility.





Zero Tolerance Policies in Schools

Author : Peggy Daniels

Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing

Page : 168 pages

File Size : 36,69 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Education

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Looks at zero tolerance policies in U.S. public schools, authors debate the effectiveness and fairness of such policies.



Zero Tolerance Discipline Policies

Author : Brian Schoonover PhD

Publisher : iUniverse

Page : 170 pages

File Size : 30,68 MB

Release : 2009-03-20

Category : Education

ISBN : 1440110727

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Mandatory punishments for disciplinary offenses have been included in school districts Student Codes of Conduct since it was mandated by the GunFree Schools Act of 1994. While zero tolerance policies were initially created to protect students and teachers from gun attacks in schools, the way in which these policies have actually been implemented in schools has prompted some parents, educators, and politicians to challenge them and call for zero tolerance policy reform. Since 1994, a majority of school districts have expanded their use of zero tolerance policies to include infractions other than those included to keep guns out of schools. Zero Tolerance Discipline Policies, the first comprehensive study of its kind, conducted by author Dr. Brian James Schoonover, examines the history of zero tolerance policies, including the practice of adding offenses other than the possession of guns to these policies. With practical, actionoriented recommendations on ways policymakers and educational leaders can improve how students are disciplined, Zero Tolerance Discipline Policies offers recommendations on what should be included in a model Student Code of Conduct as well as a recommendation for starting a ThreeCHANCE (Changing Habits After New Character Education) system of educational placements to ensure all students are educated in a safe and appropriate facility.



Survey of Key Education Stakeholders on Zero Tolerance Student Discipline Policies

Author : Ellen M. Boylan

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Page : 11 pages

File Size : 37,50 MB

Release : 2002

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In a survey commissioned by the Hamilton Fish Institute, Education Law Center (ELC), surveyed key national education stakeholder groups to determine their position on zero tolerance student discipline policies and school safety, and whether the organizations are involved in any work on zero tolerance policies. Implementation of these policies is causing an increase in exclusion of youth from educational opportunity. The survey was directed at a cross-section of national groups representing school governance, school administration, parents, teachers, student service personnel, and law enforcement. Organizations representing key education stakeholder groups were chosen for the survey. Thirteen out of seventeen national organizations surveyed responded to interview questions regarding their position on zero tolerance school discipline policies. The survey revealed a number of significant findings. First, most education stakeholder groups do not have an official position either supporting or opposing zero tolerance, and none are involved in work on the issue. Second, among the four organizations that can be said to actively support zero tolerance--American Federation of Teachers (AFT), National Education Association (NEA), National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP), and National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)--the general consensus is that there are significant problems in the way such policies are written and implemented. Finally, the survey revealed that that no major stakeholder group supports the cessation of educational services to students who have been removed from school through expulsion or long-term suspension. (Contains 13 endnotes.).



Issues of Crime and School Safety

Author : Melissa Henson

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Page : 76 pages

File Size : 34,93 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Children with disabilities

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In the aftermath of school shootings, safety in educational institutions became a national concern. The Zero Tolerance policy was designed to remove students who posed serious and or imminent threat to the school environment. It was hoped that the institution of this policy would allow schools to better police student behaviors through the use of tough disciplinary actions, and to ensure a safer learning environment for all. However, one of the latent consequences of establishing a broad set of directives was to result in the differential treatment of some minority groups such as special education students. To date, there exists little research that tests the efficacy of the zero tolerance approach in reducing school violence or its effect upon special education students who exhibit unique and separate characteristics from the general student body. Some of the behaviors that are beyond their control can impede their learning, but are even more often seen as falling under the guidelines of the zero tolerance policy, which in turn subjects this group to a number of disciplinary actions previously not utilized to address their specific needs. To address the potential impact this policy has on students with learning and emotional behavioral disorders this study analyzes data from a sample comprising of 2,736 total schools, reported over 4 different time periods, 1999-2008 originally collected by the School Survey on Crime and Safety. This study examines the relationship between various school characteristics, the proportion of special education students in a school, and the use of the disciplinary actions as a means of controlling behaviors that could be undesired but may not pose a serious threat to the educational institution. The results indicate that presence of students identified as "special education students" was strongly related to the number of disruptive behaviors reported. The increased frequency of those reported behaviors was also found to be significantly related to the use of suspension and expulsions as disciplinary actions in a school. Further multiple regression analysis yielded data demonstrating the nature of the relationships between the presence of special education students in a school, the frequency of disruptive behaviors reported, and the increased use of disciplinary actions.



Understanding the Zero Tolerance Era School Discipline Net

Author : Decoteau Jermaine Irby

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Page : 308 pages

File Size : 37,78 MB

Release : 2009

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School safety is widely recognized as an ongoing problem in United States public schools. Guided by the New Right, the school safety problem has been framed as an issue of school crime, violence, and student misbehavior that is best mitigated by zero tolerance policies. This stance has emerged as an agenda that has proven disproportionately detrimental to poor urban students of color who have experienced unforeseen levels of punishment since the Gun Free Schools Act of 1994 endorsed zero tolerance. Despite mounting evidence that zero tolerance approaches to discipline do little to deter school crime and violence or make schools safe, little ground has been gained in interrupting the ideology, policies, practices, and discourses of the zero tolerance agenda. The dissertation study theorizes and explores how ideology, cultural-politics, and discourse foster the tendency for policy creation and codification to legitimize the New Right's official knowledge of zero tolerance ideology and policy as a panacea for the school safety problem. To accomplish this, I conducted an ethnographic content analysis of codes of student conduct to examine the imbued ideologies, discourses, and policy changes that emerge from the cultural politics of managing school discipline over the last 15 years. Through this process, I lend empirical credence to the concepts of net-widening and net-deepening. With these guiding concepts, I push the field beyond the zero tolerance discourse on school safety and discipline to establish a generative alternative to understanding school discipline policies called the school discipline net framework. The results of the study establish a precedent for thinking more deeply and creatively about the perils and possibilities of school discipline policies. Major findings include the identification of several school policy changes that make the discipline experience both increasingly likely and potentially more punitive for students. Finally, through substantiating the school discipline net as a framework for discoursing, researching, guiding policy creation, and recognizing and locating sites of agency, this work establishes that it is indeed possible to engage issues critical in the field in ways that can transfer into the highly politicized school policy context dominated by New Right ideologies and discourses.



Discipline, Achievement, and Race

Author : Augustina H. Reyes

Publisher : R & L Education

Page : 160 pages

File Size : 35,58 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Education

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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.



School Discipline and Safety

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Page : pages

File Size : 27,42 MB

Release : 2012

Category : School discipline

ISBN : 9781782682332

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This volume in the point/counterpoint Debating Issues in American Education reference series tackles the topic of school discipline and safety. Chapters explore such varied issues as child abuse reporting, corporal punishment, student uniforms, zero tolerance policies, and more.