literature review on discipline in schools

Although this review does not encompass the entire stock of scholarly literature on K–12 school discipline in the United States, this study offers a thorough overview of two important areas in the robust school discipline literature.

The most recent school discipline data from the Office for Civil Rights reveal that boys, students of color, and students with disabilities were disproportionately punished in the 2017-18 school year (OCR, 2021). Data confirm that disciplining begins in the early years of schooling.

In this paper, we present a comprehensive analytic framework to examine school discipline patterns that encompasses school-level metrics that capture the prevalence and disparity in exclusionary discipline and regression-based approaches that examine the likelihood that students experience exclusionary discipline.

Disproportionalities in school discipline raise serious questions about educational equity. This study provides a comprehensive review of the extant literature on the contributors to racial, gender, and income disparities in disciplinary outcomes, and the effectiveness of emerging alternatives to exclusionary disciplinary approaches.

This literature review outlines data on the extent and impact of exclusionary discipline, zero tolerance policies, disciplinary alternative school, grade retention and discipline, corporal punishment, implicit bias and school policing and school safety.

The aim of the study was to explore collaborative strategies for managing discipline in the iLembe education district and the objective was to identify current collaborative strategies used by stakeholders to manage discipline in secondary schools in the iLembe district. Literature Review.

This article surveys three approaches to improving school discipline practices and student behavior: ecological approaches to classroom management; schoolwide positive behavioral supports; and...

Discipline in education is rooted in a theoretical framework associated with the social, behavioral, and cognitive sciences (B. N. Smith & Hains, 2012). Social learning theory explains behavior as an interaction of environmental, behavioral, and cognitive effects (Bandura, 1977).

This technical assistance package and literature review is designed to help school leaders and educators identify ways to proactively build safe and trusting communities and end their reliance on approaches to discipline that are harmful to students.

Disproportionalities in school discipline raise serious questions about edu-cational equity. This study provides a comprehensive review of the extant literature on the contributors to racial, gender, and income disparities in disciplinary outcomes, and the effectiveness of emerging alternatives to exclusionary disciplinary approaches.