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Indiana Department of Education, 2010
As the parent of a child who has or may have a disability, the federal and state laws give them certain rights--called procedural safeguards. If they would like a more detailed explanation of these rights, they should contact the principal of their child's school, a school administrator, their local special education director, or any of the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Special Education, Administrators, State Departments of Education
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Camp, William G. – NASSP Bulletin, 1981
Results suggest that perhaps too much emphasis is placed on the more extreme aspects of student discipline when the most prevalent types of student misbehaviors are relatively mild and may actually be more dangerous to student and teacher morale than to the physical well-being of persons or property. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Discipline, Discipline Problems, Elementary Secondary Education, Student Behavior
Skiba, Russell; Edl, Heather – Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, Indiana University, 2004
Since the 1980's, fear of school violence has driven American public education toward increasingly punitive and exclusionary methods of school discipline. Yet recent research has begun to raise serious questions about the effectiveness and equity of suspension and expulsion. Despite such controversy concerning the use and effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Prevention, Zero Tolerance Policy, Suspension, Principals
Green, James; Barnes, Donald – 1993
Findings from a study that examined the ways in which secondary-school administrators deal with student misconduct are presented in this paper. A secondary focus is the effect of school size and community type on administrators' perceptions and actions. A survey mailed to 100 middle and 100 secondary-school administrators from 302 Indiana school…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Discipline, Discipline Policy
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Elrod, Wilburn – Contemporary Education, 1983
A study assessed the status of discipline and corporal punishment in Indiana's public junior high and high schools. Information is reported concerning the formation of discipline policy, methods of informing students of rules, school policy on various discipline problems, and the use of corporal punishment. (PP)
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Corporal Punishment, Discipline Policy, Discipline Problems
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Camp, William G. – 1980
This paper reports on a survey of Indiana public secondary educator perceptions of student discipline problems. An extensive list of specific student misbehaviors are rated by respondents answering the following four questions. Which misbehaviors are problems in the area of discipline? How often does each occur? How serious would it be when, or…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Behavior Rating Scales, Comparative Analysis, Discipline Problems