Schoolwide discipline policies: An analysis of the past, present and future

Educational Policy and Practice: The Good, the Bad and the Pseudoscience

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 66-80

  Fenning, Pamela ^a   McArdle, Lauren ^a   Wilson, Rockeya ^a   Horwitz, Amy ^a   Morello, Taylor ^a   Golomb, Sara ^a   Maltese, Rose ^a   Morello, Morgan ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

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