Research on Discipline Not Reaching Schools, Experts Say

After four decades of research, experts know a lot about what some of the risk factors are for discipline problems in school and even how to prevent some of them.

The problem, some of those researchers said at a forum held here last week, is that the message has yet to penetrate schools.

"The lesson here is that education research and public-health or mental-health research are indeed one thing, and we have to learn how to integrate what we're doing into the school building," said Dr. Sheppard G. Kellam, a professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Medicine. "Our mission should be to help teachers...

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