1. The Problem of School Disorder. - How Much Violence Is There?. - The Imperative to Do Better. - Previous Research and Advice. - 2. Scope of the Research. - An Organizational Perspective. - Speculations about Origins of School Disorder. - The Approach to the Research. - 3. Overview of the Data Plan and Methods. - Data. - Plan. - School Disorder. - Methods-General Overview. - Level of Analysis. - Special Problems Associated with Aggregated Data. - Use of Rates in Aggregate Data. - Alternative Measurement and Causal Models. - 4. The Measurment of School Disorder. - Technical Note on the Measurement of Victimization. - 5. The Community Context. - Research Traditions in Social Ecology. - Critiques of the Ecological Traditions. - Implications. - The Development of Community Measures. - 6. Demographic and Social Composition. - Comments and Cautions. - Strength of Association. - 7. School Size Staffing and Resources. - 8. School Climate and Administration. - Principal and Teacher Attitudes. - School Governance and Sanctioning Practices. - School Social and Educational Climate. - Social Climate and School Disruption. - 9. School Security and Disruption. - 10. School Contributions to School Disorder. - Teacher Victimizations. - Student Victimizations. - Influences Beyond the School's Control. - Limitations. - 11. Alternative Models of School Disorder. - Measurement Models. - Combining Structural and Measurement Models. - Models of Teacher Victimization. - Models of Student Victimization. - The Need for Better Measures. - Implications of the Models. - 12. Advice for Policymakers. - Promising Strategies. - Learning to Do Better. - A Policymaker's Guide. - 13. Some Speculations and Extensions. - We Have Chronic Problems of Discipline in Some Schools-Not an Acute National Crisis. - Should We Establish Policies to RemoveTroublemakers from Schools?. - Holding Schools Accountable for Safe Environments. - Broadening the Scope of Educational Assessment. - Will Creating More Orderly Schools Cost Money?. - Appendix A: Student and Teacher Questionnaires. - Appendix B: Item Content of the Scales. - References. - Author Index. Language: English