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Although there is very little information on the prevalence of school corporal punishment in the published research literature, the federal government has been collecting information about school corporal punishment for several decades.
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Gershoff, E.T., Purtell, K.M., Holas, I. (2015). Prevalence of and Attitudes About School Corporal Punishment in the U.S. . In: Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools. SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14818-2_2
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