Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Worcester County’s Pocomoke High School opened its doors as usual to 352 students on a bright but chilly Thursday last December. A ...

In “Straight Talk with Rick and Jal,” Harvard University’s Jal Mehta and I examine some of the reforms and enthusiasms that permeate education. In a field full of buzzwords and jargon, our goal is ...

The recent incident in South Carolina, in which a resource officer grabbed and flung a student out of her chair after she refused to handover her cellphone, sent shock waves throughout the country and ...

The U.S. Department of Education kicked off a “Rethinking Discipline” campaign over the summer that could help bring attention to “restorative practices,” an alternative to the zero-tolerance policies ...

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To the editor: The article on the Los Angeles Unified School District’s new discipline policy, which focuses more on “restorative justice” and less on punishment, goes to the core of why public ...

Educators are faced with situations requiring disciplinary measures daily. No one method of discipline can serve as a blanket cure for all scenarios. In balance with modern discipline practices, ...

Why can’t Johnny read? Or, assuming he can, why isn’t Johnny closing the achievement gap? It’s politically fashionable to blame his tenure-protected teacher. But might it have more to do with the ...

After Pamela Thompson's sixth-grade daughter got into a dispute this year with another student at Missouri City Middle School, Thompson was struck by how the discipline process has changed. A similar ...

A fight at Murry Bergtraum High School in Manhattan was caught on cellphone video in 2012. Under a new city school discipline policy, such incidents could result in counseling, not suspensions.