In The Angry Smile: The Psychology of Passive Aggressive Behavior in Families, Schools and Workplaces, 2nd ed., we propose that the passive-aggressive student seems to derive genuine pleasure out of ...

Passive aggressive behavior occurs on a continuum, from everyday acts of procrastination, selective hearing, and convenient forgetting to extraordinarily destructive acts of personal vengeance and ...

Disruptive classroom behavior or failing to meet reasonable behavioral expectations set forth by instructors have the potential to harm the learning environment for other students and to create unsafe ...

FARMINGTON — Rising absenteeism and a sharp increase in student dysregulation are prompting new classroom strategies and ...

Teachers are used to dealing with the occasional class clown—but what happens when most of the class requires that level of handling? Classroom disruptions and poor behavior have been on the rise, ...

Managing student behavior is a perennial teaching challenge—and one novice teachers invariably feel unprepared to face, amid ...

Dear Kid Whisperer, Another teacher at my school recently loaned me a copy of "The Classroom Behavior Manual." Wow! I just ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — School superintendents across the country say bad behavior in the classroom has gotten worse. In a recent survey released by the Education Advisory Board, they say the uptick ...

HANCOCK COUNTY, W.Va. — The West Virginia House of Delegates on Monday passed Senate Bill 2515 by a vote of 93-4. The bill gives teachers the ability to handle classroom behavior. "It's a bill ...

Managing a class of children is no simple matter. Teachers are faced with classes of twenty to thirty students, each with their own particularities. It can quickly become a headache to ensure that ...