Colleges and universities are not required to allow students the right to counsel in campus discipline hearings. However, since this can be offered as an option to students, it is important that any decision to extend this privilege be thoroughly discussed in terms of its educational ramifications. (Author)

Reviews the 1997 amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act relating to short-term and long-term suspension. New protections for students with disabilities and the new tools for administrators to be used in addressing behaviors are discussed, including placement of students with disabilities in interim alternative-educational…

Examines the lessons taught by physical punishment in education and childbearing. Discusses education and religious beliefs that have long supported corporal punishment. Details the lessons instilled by spanking, the historical myth that spanking was practiced by all ancestors, and some alternatives to spanking, such as hugs. (RJM)

Summarizes results of a survey concerning institutional responses to legislation that allows institutions to notify parents of students under the age of 21 who have violated institutional alcohol policies. Assesses factors triggering and inhibiting development of notification policies; notification procedures and frequencies; and effects of…

From a comprehensive review of the professional literature, 55 arguments are drawn and presented that criticize to varying degrees corporal punishment as a proper and defensible disciplinary measure with children in the school setting. In general, such arguments are based upon philosophical, empirical, political, logical, psychological, moral,…

Drawing from an extensive literature review, this practicum recommends a written student academic due process procedure for Brookdale Community College (BCC). Introductory material poses the issue of students' rights to specific institutional procedures by which they can challenge academic judgements made by instructors or by collective faculty or…

By allowing students the opportunity to experience individual freedoms and encouraging them to learn and practice the responsibilities emanating from their individual rights, educators are teaching students how to govern themeslves. "Judicious Discipline" offers a perspective for school rules and decisions based on the Bill of Rights and…

American colleges and universities will play an increasingly important role in revitalizing a national sense of identity and community. Judicial affairs offices can contribute to that process by helping students define and protect values essential to community life. (Author)

Discusses the role of the school psychologist as a consultant in the evaluation and restructuring of effective student discipline procedures and as a provider of direct intervention services to high-risk youth. Urges school psychologists to bring a prevention focus and their insight into the principles of learning and development to the design of…

Discusses issues related to implementing the new discipline provisions in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997. Litigation that led to the new provisions is described, along with issues relating to conducting functional assessments, making a manifestation determination, generating interim placements, and cessation of…

Examines how data from student self-report surveys and other sources can be used to assess the weaknesses in current school iincidentreporting systems and improve the validity of surveillance data on school violence. Assesses the validity of data from Gun-Free Schools Act reports on the number of guns in school in light of nationally…

This monograph offers information on basic procedures concerning disciplinary action in a continuous quality improvement setting at an institution of higher education. In particular it describes progressive discipline, the application of positive discipline in a series of steps that gradually increase in severity as an employee progresses through…

When beginning or experienced teachers lack control over pupils in their classrooms, they do not experience job satisfaction and become increasingly ineffective in their classroom work. Based on a review of the literature, this paper provides: (1) practical, workable strategies to assist experienced and inexperienced teachers to become more…

A brief history of corporal punishment in the public schools, a review of major federal court decisions regarding corporal punishment and due process for students, and an analysis of current trends in disciplinary policy are presented in this report. The conservative trend revealed in school discipline is identified in large part as a response to…

Research into criminal activity in United States schools has provided evidence that helps explain students' and teachers' attitudes toward schools. Information on changes in disciplinary conditions is incomplete but suggests that discipline continues to be a major problem severely limiting educational efforts and that educators must take more…