Sentences with phrase «analysis of school discipline»

Beyond Zero Tolerance: Discipline and Policing in Pennsylvania Public Schools (2015), is the only statewide analysis of school discipline for Pennsylvania.

Indeed, a 2014 analysis of school discipline data by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights found these students are overrepresented among students who experience exclusionary discipline across the country.

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The team has representatives from the Wilson Center, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston University and Arizona State University working in disciplines ranging from genome engineering and public health and ecology to risk and policy analysis.

Our schools need to teach the real, discipline - based skills of quantitative data analysis, statistics, political science, and economics much better than they do now if we are to be prepared to wade into this maelstrom of information.

Dunn argues that the Office of Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education has been using «disparate impact analysis» to issue profoundly misguided policies on school discipline and school finance.

The report, issued by the Government Accountability Office on Wednesday, is the first national governmental analysis of discipline policies since the Obama administration issued guidance in 2014 that urged schools to examine the disproportionate rates at which black students were being punished.

Missing also has been a focus on school safety in the context of school discipline, classroom management, and student self - management, and the objective analysis of the root causes of this complex problem.

The GAO's analysis examines six categories of discipline: out - of - school suspensions, in - school suspensions, referrals to law enforcement, expulsions, corporal punishment, and school - related arrests.

I use multiple data sources — including eight months of participatory classroom observation; in - depth interviews with educators, school leaders, and staff; and document and media analyses — to probe teachers» decision - making processes and to examine how, why, and under what conditions they elect to employ discipline in relation to particular students.

That meta - analysis revealed that students improved on every measure of positive behavior, like classroom discipline, liking school, and attendance — and went down on rates for every anti-social index, from bullying and fights to suspensions and substance abuse.

The study does mention that it did an analysis of Oakland Unified academic achievement after implementation of its school discipline reform effort to compare results with that of L.A. Unified.

The LDC launch team attends a series of regional sessions to master the basics of the LDC CoreTools and collaborate in module design and analysis of student work with teachers in their discipline from different school districts.

Exclude charters results from the survey, and the percentage of teachers just within the New York City district agreeing or strongly agreeing that «my school maintains order and disciplined» increased from 77 percent to 78 percent over that period, according to a Dropout Nation analysis of the city's survey data from that period.

Starting in prekindergarten, black boys and girls were disciplined at school far more than their white peers in 2013 - 2014, according to a government analysis of data that said implicit racial bias was the likely cause of these continuing disparities.

The Program is designed to provide doctoral students in social science disciplines (especially Sociology, Political Science, and Psychology, though it is open to students in other departments as well) and in the Graduate School of Education with advanced training in state - of - the - art quantitative methods of discipline - based education policy analysis.

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