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Rios, Victor M.; Galicia, Mario G. – Journal of the Association of Mexican American Educators, 2013
This article asserts that schools have tremendous positive power over the lives of students--the power to teach them academics; the power to socialize them to be engaged citizens; the power to transform their lives in positive ways--but schools also have negative power: the power to mark a student with a discipline record; the power to force a…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, At Risk Students, Discipline, Correctional Institutions
Chiprany, David Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse reported that 35 percent of middle school students and 45 percent of high school students say that there are students who are affiliated with gangs or who consider themselves to be affiliated with gangs in their schools (Arciaga, Sakamoto, & Jones, 2010). Gangs are increasingly violent and…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Suspension, Enrollment, Addictive Behavior