In 2003, Robert J. Marzano, Jana S Marzano and Debra J. Pickering wrote “Classroom Management That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Every Teacher”. The book is utilized in school districts across the United States. It provides research based classroom management strategies for educators. The year 2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the original publication of the book. Since 2003, Black Lives Matters, Zero Tolerance discipline policies and School to Prison pipeline issues have forced educators and policy makers to examine the relationship that school discipline polices have with equity, race and incarcerations. This critical analysis of the disciplinary interventions in “Classroom Management That Works” will examine the proposed classroom interventions from the historical perspective of graduate students at a Historically Black College-University.
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