TOPIC: Zero Tolerance

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Center Developed Resources and Tools

Introductory Packets

• Conduct and Behavior Problems: Intervention and Resources for School Aged Youth
• Social and Interpersonal Problems Related to School Aged Youth
• Violence Prevention and Safe Schools

Center Report

• Youth Gangs and Schools

Quick Training

• Violence Prevention

Practice Notes

• Bullying: A Major Barrier to Student Learning
• When a Student Seems Dangerous to Self or Others

Resource Aid Packet

• Responding to Crisis at a School
• Substance Abuse

Technical Assistance Sampler

• A Sampling of Outcome Findings from Interventions Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning
• Behavioral Initiatives in Broad Perspective

Prevention
• Beyond Zero Tolerance: A Reality-Based Approach to Drug Education and Student Assistance
• Common Sense Urged over 'Zero Tolerance'
• The Dark Side of Zero Tolerance: Can Punishment Lead to Safe Schools?
• Drawing The Line: Zero Tolerance
• The Intolerance of Zero Tolerance
• Interventions for Chronic Behavior Problems
• QuickGuide to Suspensions and Expulsions
• "Zero-Tolerance": What Parents Should Know

Reports

• Are Zero Tolerance Policies Effective in the Schools? An Evidentiary Review and Recommendations.
• Cracking down on kids: Zero tolerance should cover clear and serious offenses only
• Opportunities Suspended: The Devastating Consequences of Zero Tolerance and School Discipline
• Safe Schools and Violence Prevention Office: Zero Tolerance
• Zero Tolerance Policy (ABA Juvenile Justice Policies)

Facts/General Info

• The Facts: Zero Tolerance (Alcohol)
• Zero Tolerance, Zero Evidence: An Analysis of School Disciplinary Practice
• "Zero Tolerance Fact Sheet" Justice Policy Institute.
• Zero Tolerance for Zero Tolerance

• ProTeacher: Classroom Management
• National School Safety and Security Services: Zero Tolerance

• Are School Zero-tolerance Policies Effective? (At Issue Series) (2007). Greenhaven Press
• "Racial Profiling and Punishment in U.S. Public Schools: How Zero Tolerance Policies and High Stakes Testing Subvert Academic Excellence and Racial Equity. by Johnson, Tammy, & others(2001). Oakland, Calif: Applied Research Center
• The Color of Discipline: Sources of Racial and Gender Disproportionality in School Punishment by Skiba, Russell, & Others(2000). Bloomington, Ind: Indiance Education Policy Center
• "The Pros and Cons of Zero Tolerance" by First, J. Ewing, C.P. (2000). Harvard Education Letter Research
• Zero Tolerance Policies in Schools. by P. Daniels. (2008). Greenhaven Press.
• Zero Tolerance Policies in Schools. by P. Daniels. (2009). Greenhaven Press.
• Zero Tolerance: Resisting the Drive for Punishment by Ayers, Rick, & Eds. (2001). New York: The New Press
• "Zero Tolerance: Unfair, With Little Resource" by Brown, J. Losen, D. & Wald, J.(2001). Zero Tolerance: Can Suspension and Explusion Keep Schools Safe?San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• "Zero Tolerance, Zero Evidence: An Analysis of School Disciplinary Practice" by Skiba, Russell. (2000). Phi Delta Kappan Bloomington, Ind: Indiana Education Policy Center

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