... Policies, academics began to conduct research to measure the efficiency of these disciplinary methods. In a statistical analysis report on violence and discipline problems in U.S. public schools, analysts from the National Center for Education Statistics looked at the state of violence in public schools to examine whether or not policymakers were correct in their estimation that adolescent violence was out of control ... lower rates of out-of-school suspension, lower rates of court referrals, higher graduation rates and decreased delinquent felony rates by fifty-percent. In an issue bri...

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... (Lines, 2000, 12), and with the escalating concern over the public school system the growth of the home schooling movement is inevitable. According to the survey conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics, "the most common reasons that parents give for home schooling their children are moral or religious reasons, a desire for high educational achievement, dissatisfaction with public schools' instructional ... ...

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