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Lo, Ya-yu; Kourea, Lefki; Werunga, Robai N.; Owens, Tosha Lynn; Collins, Belva – Preventing School Failure, 2021
Schoolwide Positive Behavior Support, a framework for remediating and preventing student problem behaviors and supporting schools, has demonstrated a reduction in office disciplinary referrals (ODRs) among student groups. However, African American students are still overrepresented in ODRs. This study extended a prior study that explored parents'…
Descriptors: African American Students, Positive Behavior Supports, Behavior Problems, Student Behavior
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Fox, Lise; Strain, Phillip S.; Dunlap, Glen – Preventing School Failure, 2021
This paper describes the approach used by two demonstration sites to implement Pyramid Model Practices at fidelity and address behavioral issues without the use of suspension and expulsion. The article describes the critical features of implementation used by public school preschool centers to improve the implementation of evidence-based social…
Descriptors: Suspension, Expulsion, Prevention, Preschool Education
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Husband, Terry – Reading Horizons, 2012
Much has been written about reading disparities between African American males and other student groups. Interestingly, the majority of this scholarship focuses on African American males at preadolescent states of development and beyond. To date, relatively little has been documented relative to improving reading outcomes in African American males…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Reading Achievement, Underachievement