Today's classrooms are much more complicated than in years past. Discipline,
now known as classroom management, has added factors. New dimensions to classroom
management were born with the advent of inclusion, bilingual classes, and students with
disabilities. An analysis of the past fifty years of educational research as noted by Wang,
Haertel, and Walberg (as cited in Conte, 1994) revealed that effective classroom
management increases student engagement, decreases disruptive behaviors, and makes
good use of instructional time.