Smith Initiatives for Prevention & Education
College of Education
The University of Arizona
P.O. Box 210069
Tucson, Arizona
85721-0069
(520) 626-4964
Kris Bosworth, PhD
Director
 
 

Alternatives to Suspension, Expulsion, and Dropping Out

Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
School Improvement Research Series (SIRS)
http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/sirs/5/cu9.html
This article relates research findings in the area of school discipline and its effects, including suspension & expulsion.

Project Adventure Programs
http://www.pa.org/
Check out: "Challenge" -- an alternative program to incarceration which reduces delinquency; and "Project Decision" -- an alternative to out of school suspension for middle and high school students.

BASIS, Inc. - Alternatives to School Suspension (B.A.S.S.) program
"Because alcohol & other drugs don't belong at school, but kids do" (A 3-4 week chemical dependency education program for students with alcohol or drug use.)
http://www.basisinc.org/bassprog.htm

School-linked Integrated Services (IS)
http://www.ed.gov/databases/ER IC_Digests/ed355197.html
(School-linked IS programs focus on prevention and wellness promotion for children and their families...) ED355197 Feb93 Integrated Services: "New Roles for Schools, New Challenges for Teacher Education" ERIC Digest

Teacher/Pathfinder Home: Support Offices: Pupil Personnel Specialists
http://teacherpathfinder.org/Support/discipline.html

Teacher/Pathfinder Site Map
http://teacherpathfinder.org/sitemap.html

Join Together Online

Substance Abuse Resource Center

The Center for Education Reform (CER)
(A national, independent, non-profit advocacy organization founded in 1993 to provide support and guidance to individuals, civic groups, policymakers and others who are working to bring fundamental reform to their schools.)
http://edreform.com/newswire.htm

In-school suspension program for middle school students
(not currently being applied to drug offenders)
Grice. Michael L. (1986). Positive alternatives to school suspension (PASS), 1985-86. Portland, Or: Research & Evaluation Department, Portland Public Schools. ERIC Document Reproduction Service No.ED276794

 


 
     
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