"In order for reform to work, everyone involved must be clear about its purposes, policies and procedures and those initiating the change need to relentlessly explain, clarify, train, seek feedback, troubleshoot, modify, re-explain and re-clarify " (Evans, 1996). ... By yielding to the pressure of a result-oriented culture, a beginning teacher risks communicating the message that academic excellence is more important than all the other values propagated in CCE. ... Singaporean parents are known for their high involvement in the emotional and material support of their children'...

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Abstract In the past couple of decades, public schools in the United States have enforced increasingly punitive methods of discipline. In response to perceived elevation in juvenile crime and school violence, the Clinton Administration signed into law the Gun-Free Schools act of 1994. The act requir...

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