This paper uses international data from a range of sources, principally the 2013 round of the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS 2013), to provide new information on classroom disciplinary climate in secondary schools in England. The paper advances the literature in three distinct ways. Firstly, the data show that teachers in…

Reports on a survey of English primary school head teachers and educational psychologists' opinions on disruptive behavior. Sixty-two percent of the head teachers and thirty-one percent of the psychologists believed the onset of disruptive behavior was getting earlier. (Author/JDH)

A survey of 231 British teachers assessed their ratings of classroom reforms which might stimulate student interest and reduce behavior problems. Results correlate with those from a study in 1952, showing abolition of corporal punishment as having little effect and smaller class size, remedial courses, and parental support as being most effective.…