Sentences with phrase «punitive school discipline»

Organizations like the Center for Restoratives Approaches and Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children, helped usher in these changes by organizing and educating families about the dangers of punitive school discipline policies and by demonstrating that «zero - tolerance» approaches have no utility.

Many of the youth in the room were leaders who were instrumental in LAUSD's passing the Student Climate Bill of Rights, which favors alternatives that promote positive behavior over punitive school discipline policies.

Punitive school discipline practices such as overuse of suspension also can contribute to absenteeism as well as to community distrust of schools.

Research shows that the reliance on punitive school discipline like suspensions, expulsions, and school arrests — «school pushout» — deprives students of learning time and takes the greatest toll on nonwhite students, students with disabilities, LGBT youth and other vulnerable student groups.

In «Advancing School Discipline Reform,» American Research Institute researchers Greta Colombi and David Osher explore the latest research about punitive school discipline and zero - tolerance policies, their effects on student achievement, and supportive disciplinary strategies that have demonstrated effectiveness.

«It is time for us, as a city, to have an honest conversation about the impact of punitive school discipline, and we applaud our leaders for committing to tracking and releasing comprehensive data about school climate.»

The report reviews data and research on student absences — finding that unexpected factors such as unstable housing, fear of bullying, and punitive school discipline policies as well as health conditions such as hunger,...

The report reviews data and research on student absences — finding that unexpected factors such as unstable housing, fear of bullying, and punitive school discipline policies as well as health conditions such as hunger, dental pain, respiratory illness, and depression contribute to absenteeism.

LONG BEFORE HILLARY CLINTON gave her speech on the school - to - prison pipeline, activists, lawyers, and researchers were figuring out how to raise public awareness about the harms of punitive school discipline.

It is time for us, as a city, to have an honest conversation about the impact of punitive school discipline, and we applaud our leaders for committing to tracking and releasing comprehensive data about school climate.