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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Zero Tolerance"”.
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Community Safety and Zero Tolerance : A Study of Partnership Policing
This research examines a community safety crime prevention partnership in the communities of Aberfan and Merthyr Vale that lie within the South Wales police area. It analyses the work of the local multi-agency partnership in its attempts to reduce recorded crime and fear of crime within that …
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Zero Tolerance, Zero Justice: Teacher Perceptions of Using Restorative Justice
<p>While many schools are spending millions on instructional programming, new technology, and colorful chart paper for data walls, an area that often takes a back seat to improving achievement is the social and emotional learning of students (SEL). Until the education community starts focusing on …
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Zero tolerance and its women : representations of self and nation
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-71).
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Using the Four Agreements to reduce student stress in a zero tolerance school
… of 1994 required school districts to implement zero tolerance discipline policies that called for expulsion of students who bring weapons to school or commit drug offenses on school property. The zero tolerance policy forced students to deal with punishments and requirements that many educators …
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Understanding the Zero Tolerance Era School Discipline Net: Net-widening, net-deepening, and the cultural politics of school discipline
… student misbehavior that is best mitigated by zero tolerance policies. This stance has emerged as an agenda that has proven disproportionately detrimental to poor urban students of color who have experienced unforeseen levels of punishment since the Gun Free Schools Act of 1994 endorsed zero …
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School to Prison Pipeline Unmasked: Review of how the School to Prison Pipeline Reinforces Disproportionality in Mass Incarceration
… to plague communities of color. Simultaneously, zero tolerance policies in the nation’s schools have helped to fuel the mass incarceration of people of color by ensuring that students of color are disproportionately disciplined via suspended or expelled, criminalized, and eventually funneled into …
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A Qualitative Descriptive Study on Secondary School Administrators’ Perception of Restorative Practices and the Impact of Restorative Practice Program
<p>Zero tolerance behavior management policies in secondary schools contribute to high student suspension and dropout rates. Zero tolerance policies do not provide an alternative solution to correct undesired behaviors and do virtually nothing to target a solution to reduce suspensions and student …
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The Effect of Sexual Harassment on Female Naval Officers: A Phenomenological Study
… policies. As an example, the Navy's policy of "zero tolerance" for drug abuse has resulted in a nearly drug-free Navy. Its policy of "zero tolerance" for sexual harassment has not been similarly effective. Eight women officers give their perspective on the Navy's efforts to prevent the kind of …
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Trajectory of trauma: The experiences of Black girls in the school-to-prison pipeline
… and case studies to explore the impacts that zero-tolerance policies have had on the lives of Black girls and women. This work contributes to a small but growing body of work on the intersectional struggles faced by Black girls within the School-to-Prison Pipeline. An aim of this research was …
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Endangered species: the hope for students in Mexican Chicago
… question examines: to what extent did the Zero Tolerance discipline policy in and out of Chicago Public Schools influence the MBM ""dropout or pushout"" crisis? The ethnography’s four methods of data collection were individual interviews, focus groups, participant observations, and review …
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Effective School Discipline Policy and Practice: Supporting Student Learning Through Restorative Practices and Social Emotional Learning Skills
… that of society. In response to the failure of zero-tolerance policies and to the passing of Illinois Senate Bill 100, which restricts disciplinary action that remove students from school, XYZ Middle School is adopting a restorative justice model of school discipline. This model, based on Social …
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The Colonial Logics of Exceptionalism: Imperial Feminism in an American and Canadian Case Study
… Afghan women. The second case study explores the Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act, a Conservative piece of legislation that criminalized polygamy at the borders of Canada. In each case study, it reveals the ways in which Muslim women were used as referent objects of protection in …
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South African peace mission personnel and sexual misconduct against women in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A Constructivist exploration of Norm Internalisation
… behaviour. The research examines the UN’s zero-tolerance policy and South Africa’s compliance therewith, demonstrating the challenges that the political dynamics between these two actors has in achieving Norm Internalisation. This research provides a foundation for future research on the …
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The implementation of restorative practices in an urban middle school
<p>Traditionally, schools have turned to zero tolerance policies when dealing with student discipline and punishment. However, it is argued that zero tolerance policies are not only ineffective, but also harmful to students because the policies hinder schools' ability to be democratic spaces. …
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UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY: EXPLOITING UNDOCUMENTED MIGRANTS FOR POLITICAL GAIN
… analyzed include the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy, which was criticized as having overburdened law enforcement and judicial systems, and the Biden administration’s rollback of enforcement measures, which critics argue encouraged increased migrant flows. The findings reveal …
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Is school for me? A phenomenological study on the lived experiences of former incarcerated Black and Brown cisgender males who matriculated through traditional Wisconsin K-12 schools and their perceived impact of discipline polices on their incarceration and life trajectories
… the study highlights systemic biases, zero-tolerance policies, and the school-to-prison pipeline as key factors supporting racial disparities in discipline. Through interviews, surveys, and a focus group, participants known as “Persons” shared firsthand accounts of how punitive school …
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Deadly playgrounds: relief teachers and reporting of bullying incidents in Victorian primary schools
… school’ approach, though the focus ranged from ‘Zero Tolerance’ to ‘No Blame’ or ‘Method of Shared Concern’. CRTs were normally not informed about the schools’ programs and procedures on bullying, especially with respect to yard duty. In this situation, principals and permanent staff need to look …
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Connection Before Correction: The Impact of Restorative Practices on Students with Disabilities
<p>As an alternative to zero tolerance discipline policies that focus on punitive, exclusionary, and often predetermined consequences for a disruptive behavior, many educators in schools across the United States have started implementing restorative practices (RP) in their classrooms. RP focus on …
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