School Discipline: Best Practices for Administrators

Rosen (executive director of the School Justice Institute, "a nonprofit corporation dedicated to the improvement of fair discipline practices in schools") presents the results of a series of meetings, which brought together assistant principals in charge of discipline across the United States to review programs and policies of school discipline and safety. The volume summarizes the issues identified as important to the contemporary practice of school discipline, offering chapters on goals and definitions, standards of rule evaluation and model Student Codes of Conduct, legal requirements and court decisions related to discipline, research by the United States Department of Education and the Disciplined and Drug Free Schools Program, prevention strategies (involving school climate, anger control, counseling, communication, documentation, and community involvement), and issues related to disciplining special education students under the Individual Disabilities Education Act. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR