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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Zero-Tolerance Policies"”.
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School to Prison Pipeline Unmasked: Review of how the School to Prison Pipeline Reinforces Disproportionality in Mass Incarceration
<p>Strict law and order policies, due to the War on Drugs, enacted in the 1970's have led to the mass incarceration that continues 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 …
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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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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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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 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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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
… K-12 schools. It includes school discipline policies that shaped their educational journeys and contributed to their incarceration and life trajectories. Using critical race theory (CRT) and social constructivism as the theoretical frameworks, the study highlights systemic biases, …
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An Investigation of the Representation of Black, Hispanic, and White Female Students in Exclusionary Discipline Outcomes at the Middle School Level in a Virginia School Division
… discipline theory and informed by literature on zero- tolerance policies, the school-to-prison pipeline, and systemic inequities, the study employed a causal-comparative design using secondary data from the division's data warehouse. Descriptive statistics summarized enrollment and suspension …
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Educators’ Perceptions of Restorative Justice, Care, Inclusion, and Disability: A Phen[women]ological Study
… educational policy is moving from “safe schools/zero tolerance” policies to restorative justice practices. Through a feminist disability studies lens, the focus of this a phen[women]ological study of the lived experiences of six educators from two different schools in Illinois and their …
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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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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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Discipline Disproportionality in an Urban School Division within the Commonwealth of Virginia
The purpose of this study was to determine what change, if any, existed in the number and percentage of student discipline referrals and exclusionary discipline practices of students by race, gender, and those with disabilities after the introduction of a division-wide, systematic approach to …
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The Role Of School Leadership In Preparing High School Teachers To Engage In Restorative Practices
… across the United States, student discipline policies have traditionally been punitive, removing students from the educational. Researchers have shown that punitive consequences are often assigned inordinately to subgroups of students (e.g., Black or Brown students and special education …
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The views and experiences of service providers in facilitating a positive behaviour programme for at-risk youth in Cape Town schools: the case of the tenterden place of safety
… criticised punitive disciplinary mechanisms and zero-tolerance policies often adopted by schools, arguing that they contribute to what is known as the school-to-prison pipeline. Restorative justice approaches to school discipline are emerging as a widely supported alternative to such measures, as …
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The Effects Of The Dallas Independent School District Code Of Conduct On LGBTQ Young Adults Of Color
… and were suspended and/or expelled due to the zero tolerance nature of the student code of conduct. Inductive reasoning was used as it is based on learning from experiences. In addition, patterns and similarities were observed in order to reach conclusions (Kakulu, Byrne, & Viitanen, 2009).</p> …