A former deputy chancellor of New York City schools explains why the police don’t need to patrol the nation’s public schools.
Suspensions have continued throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, while children are attending remotely from their homes.
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Jessica Taft, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Convention on the Rights of the Child is empowering children around the world by encouraging them to see themselves as important and valuable members of society.
The portion of primary schools that have police officers on site has risen dramatically in recent years.
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About one-third of America’s primary schools have a school police officer on hand. Do these officers make schools safer, or are they turning primary schools into mini police precincts?
Corporal punishment in schools around the world is disappearing, but a handful of countries have held on to the practice.
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Lucy Sorensen, University at Albany, State University of New York; Charmaine N. Willis, University at Albany, State University of New York; Melissa L Breger, Albany Law School, and Victor Asal, University at Albany, State University of New York
While more and more countries have moved to ban corporal punishment in schools, certain types of nations have been slower than others to outlaw the practice. A recent analysis seeks to explain why.
Teachers still sometimes punish a whole class for the behaviour of one student.
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Collective punishments take some of the heavy lifting from the teacher and place it on the peers to impose social sanctions. But it’s likely to make students disengaged, and misbehave more.
LeBron James speaks at the opening ceremony for the I Promise School in Akron, Ohio.
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In order to be successful, the I Promise Academy needs to confront issues of race – much like LeBron James himself, who launched the school amid great fanfare in 2018, an education scholar argues.
Zero tolerance polices in school discipline are on the decline, new data show.
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Zero tolerance policies in America’s schools are declining, but you might not be able to tell since so many practices get lumped under the ‘zero tolerance’ label, a school discipline expert says.
School experiments with new ways to discipline students without suspending them show mixed results.
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Although new evidence shows mixed results for “restorative justice” practices, that’s no reason for schools to stop looking for alternatives to school suspensions, a school safety scholar argues.
The code of the street – where respect is won by fighting – often follows children into school.
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While school suspensions are meant to deter violence and other troublesome behavior, some students see being suspended as something that makes them more popular and tough, a researcher has found.
Keeping classes under control is a continuous challenge for teachers.
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Reports that Australian classrooms are some of the most disruptive in the world are based on the experiences of 15-year-old students alone, and focus on science classes.
A student discusses a recent conflict with another student solved through restorative justice, at Ed White Middle School in San Antonio, Texas.
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is poised to stop looking at racial disparities in school discipline – a move that one scholar believes will send the wrong message to schools.
A New Jersey mother shows up at her son’s class as a clown to get him to stop misbehaving in school. The boy’s principal posted a video of the visit online.
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As more parents turn to social media to post videos of themselves punishing their children, an educational psychologist warns that the practice may cause more harm than good.
Numerous data show black students are kicked out of school at disproportionate rates.
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A grassroots movement to end racial disparities in schoolhouse discipline is beginning to take root throughout the nation and winning important victories at the local level. Can it sustain the effort?
Suspending a student for wagging school likely wouldn’t have the desired punitive effect.
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The recent arrest of two black patrons who were waiting on a business meeting at a Starbucks has parallels to how black children are unfairly discipline in school, a researcher argues.
Efforts to ban school suspensions to reduce racial disparities are on the rise, but experts warn they could backfire.
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Some school districts are moving to cut back on the use of suspensions. But if school discipline reforms are not implemented in a thoughtful way, classrooms may become harder to manage.
The Trump administration aims to revisit school discipline policies.
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Despite the failure of zero tolerance discipline policies in schools, the Trump administration is targeting an Obama-era memo that sought to limit such policies.