Discipline is one of the highest priority concerns in public schools today. Like other critical challenges facing educators, such as the low achievement of disproportionately high numbers of students of color, insufficient funding resources, and segregated student populations, it continues largely unabated and unresolved. Why do these problems persist? How can they be resolved?
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