Physical punishment of children is not only inefficient in maintaining discipline, but also harmful. School officials who favor it are often personally frustrated. (WM)

Historical resume of the role of discipline in the educational process. (MF)

Reports a study designed to determine if communication problems actually exist as perceived by classroom teachers. Negro and white teachers were found to perceive communication problems differently. More white than Negro teachers were dissatisfied, and reported more communication and discipline problems with students of the opposite race. (DM)

Presented in this article are several major principles involved in substantive due process in public institutions of higher education pertaining to disciplinary cases in which suspension or dismissal of students has occurred. (Author/BY)

Describes the operation of the Vice Principal's Advisory Council (VPAC) at Montgomery High School, Skillman, New Jersey, which is used to provide a team approach to intervention in student problems. (JW)

An overview of research on selected aspects of discipline in the high school is presented. The Safe Schools Study is discussed and relevant organizational factors are presented. These include school size, decision making, rules, discipline codes, and punitiveness. An example of school psychology discipline consultation is presented. (Author/PN)

Conventional classroom controls are not working well for teachers today. The answer: low-profile controls, which focus student attention directly on lesson content without unnecessary distractions. (Author)

Discusses implications of the requirement to grant employee representation in disciplinary interviews and cites several related court cases. (Author/WD)

The decline of the American educational system is due not to teacher incompetence, but to funding systems that depend upon body counts rather than excellence, to weak discipline policies, and to egalitarian admissions policies that reward students according to need rather than ability. (WD)

In Sarpy County (Nebraska), concerned educators and representatives of youth-serving agencies, court personnel, and police agencies are cooperating to handle student discipline problems, such as drug and alcohol abuse. A community relations counselor coordinates the program and many benefits have already been realized from the groups' cooperation.…

Four role-related problems that seem to undermine the performance of many individuals associated with the school control structure are identified and discussed. These four are role conflicts, role ambiguities, multiple roles, and role rejection. (JMF)

Offers ten tips intended to help administrators make decisions and resolve conflicts. (Author/JM)

The numbers of disciplinary referrals to the principal's office for 202 boys and 202 girls from a middle-class, suburban junior high school were obtained from student records and fitted to a highly skewed negative binomial distribution. The fitted and observed distributions do not significantly differ. (Author)