Sentences with phrase «based school discipline policies»

• Race - based school discipline policies.

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Working with HGSE students, she has developed case studies focusing on particular dilemmas of justice in schools and school districts like ethics of grade inflation, eighth - grade promotion and retention policies, lottery - based school assignment, disciplining socially fragile children, and teacher firings.

Of the program - and policy - based alternatives to exclusionary discipline, Steinberg and Lacoe report the most evidence for, and positive effects from, the Schoolwide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) program, a strategy that aims to change a school culture by setting clear behavioral expectations, laying out a continuum of consequences for infractions, and reinforcing positive behavior.

These include the ethics of grade inflation, lottery - based school assignment policies, disciplining socially fragile children, and charter school expansion policies that take attrition rates and school demographics into account.

We add to this discussion our findings that the legal understandings underlying school discipline policies depart in significant ways from the case law on which they are assumed to be based, according expansive rights and protections to students, even as the courts have tended to side with school authorities.

«To understand the second incident,» Wagner told Education World, «you have to understand our school's discipline policy, which is based on a color system.»

Elementary schools can allocate up to 50 percent of seats to students within a defined neighborhood, while high schools have no geographic boundaries; all open - enrollment schools with available seats must admit students at any time of the year; selective schools can employ test - based admissions; and expulsion policies (but not all discipline policies) are standardized.

The bill requires districts to establish a policy on school discipline that contains the specific basis for in - school suspensions, short term out - of - school suspensions, long term out - of - school suspensions and expulsions, and the maximum length of long term suspensions.

It's time to get cops out of our schools and to demand discipline policies that are based on principles of nonviolence and restorative justice.

My favorite part is seeing PURE's expose of the Noble Street Charter Network's fine - based discipline policy nicely worked into Diane's argument that charter schools have not lived up to the hype.

Second, Black argues, although the Bloomberg piece touches on a truth by asserting that simply stopping or limiting suspensions can harm students» education, this occurs when a school does not at the same time reform its discipline policies based on positive behavioral support and programs based in restorative practices.

To retain and support teachers, schools should: coordinate instructional practices and curriculum across classes; develop and consistently follow schoolwide policies to promote orderly and disciplined learning environments; offer school - based, socio - emotional and psychological support; and create and prioritize schoolwide initiatives for engaging parents.

SCHOOL DISCIPLINE SUMMIT SPARKS TRANSPARENCY CONCERNS: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos today will hear from supporters and opponents of Obama - era guidance aimed at curbing racial disparities in school discipline and the overuse of harsh policies, like out - of - school suspensions, expulsions and school - based arrests for nonviolent offSCHOOL DISCIPLINE SUMMIT SPARKS TRANSPARENCY CONCERNS: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos today will hear from supporters and opponents of Obama - era guidance aimed at curbing racial disparities in school discipline and the overuse of harsh policies, like out - of - school suspensions, expulsions and school - based arrests for nonviolentDISCIPLINE SUMMIT SPARKS TRANSPARENCY CONCERNS: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos today will hear from supporters and opponents of Obama - era guidance aimed at curbing racial disparities in school discipline and the overuse of harsh policies, like out - of - school suspensions, expulsions and school - based arrests for nonviolent offschool discipline and the overuse of harsh policies, like out - of - school suspensions, expulsions and school - based arrests for nonviolentdiscipline and the overuse of harsh policies, like out - of - school suspensions, expulsions and school - based arrests for nonviolent offschool suspensions, expulsions and school - based arrests for nonviolent offschool - based arrests for nonviolent offenses.

The guidance told school districts that discipline policies could be found in violation of federal civil rights law based on discriminatory effects, even if the policies are neutral on their face.

It's not always easy to tell whether the new approaches help overall student performance, because schools interested in this type of experimentation are often innovating in other ways as well: changing grading policies, moving to more project - based learning models and rethinking discipline strategies.

An unintended consequence of these policies and practices was that youth with behavioral health needs were put at an increased risk for exclusionary discipline and school - based arrests.

The Trump administration could rescind the education department's 2014 guidance, which tells school districts that the office may enforce Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and investigate schools where discipline policies have a «disproportionate and unjustified effect» on students based on race.

Today, PURE joined with the Washington, D. C. - based legal advocacy group Advancement Project and Voices of Youth in Chicago Education (VOYCE) in a press conference and march to protest the Noble Charter School Network's predatory student discipline policy.

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.

In both the Highline Public Schools district outside of Seattle and Los Angeles Unified School District, a shift from «no excuses» discipline policies to an SEL - based restorative justice approach came too quickly and without enough guidance, argued critics, alienating some teachers, many of whom left their jobs.

Proposed updates to the discipline code include an end to suspensions for students in grades K - 2 For the first time, NYPD releases expanded school safety data on school - based arrests, summonses and handcuffing New scanning policy establishes official process based on data with NYPD oversight for...