Improving learning environments
Subtitle: school discipline and student achievement in comparative perspective
By: edited by Richard Arum and Melissa Velez
Series: Studies in social inequality
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804778039
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Academic achievement; Comparative education; School discipline
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: School discipline, student achievement and social inequality / Richard Arum, Karly Ford, and Melissa Velez; title: Academic performance and expectations of Canadian students / Robert Andersen and David Zarifa; title: School discipline in Chile / Florencia Torche and Alejandra Mizala; title: School discipline and achievement in Israel / Yossi Shavit and Carmel Blank; title: School discipline, performance and the presence of immigrants in Italian schools / Paolo Barbieri and Stefani Scherer; title: School, discipline, and achievement in Japan / Hiroshi Ishida and Satoshi Miwa; title: School disciplinary climate, behavioral problems, and academic achievement in the Netherlands / Herman G. van de Werfhorst, Machteld Bergstra, and René Veenstra; title: School discipline, math/science achievement, and college aspirations in contemporary Russia / Theodore P. Gerber; title: Correlates of school disciplinary climate and its consequences for student achievement in South Korea / Hyunjoon Park; title: Class and racial differences in U.S. school disciplinary environments / Richard Arum and Melissa Velez.