Zero Tolerance Policy

Minority Students Face Harsher Punishments, Report Shows

Posted 12.05.2011

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Black and Latino students are disproportionately more likely to experience harsher punishments by schools for infractions and misbehaviors, according ...

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Zero Tolerance Discipline Policies: A Failing Idea

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 10.05.2011

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Marian Wright Edelman

Many school children in America are on summer break right now, but here's a pop quiz about discipline policies in our nation's schools that's just for grownups.

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Student Arrested And Expelled For Writing Name On Desk, Peers Seek Change

Posted 09.14.2011

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A Chicago student advocacy group is fed up with its school system's zero-tolerance disciplinary policies. Voices of Youth in Chicago Education rall...

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When We Ban Kids from School, the Damage Goes far Beyond Academics

Patrick Boyle | Posted 07.18.2011

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Patrick Boyle

If schools embrace the concept of themselves as communities, they need to act like communities -- rather than like isolated instructional pods that jettison undesirables.

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The Time Is Right to End "Zero Tolerance" in Schools

Gara LaMarche | Posted 06.11.2011

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Gara LaMarche

It is too early to know whether the current wave of school reforms will lead to lasting improvements in student achievement. But it is not too early to note that many of these reforms have a troubling consequence.

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Bullying: Didn't You Know It's Just a Sport?

Carol Smaldino | Posted 11.17.2011

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Carol Smaldino

We need to get serious about the urgent need to focus on adult bullying of other adults, something at times dramatic and at others so usual as to be staples of our living conditions.

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6 Year Old Zachary Christie Sentenced to 45 Days in Reform School for Bringing Camping Knife to School ... to Eat Lunch With

Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Tian Dayton

Isn't Zachary the sort of child that Delaware's Zero tolerance policy was put in place to protect? And aren't his parents just the kind we want to support and respect?

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ReThink Review: The War On Kids -- Education's Prisoners

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jonathan Kim

Public schools have essentially been turned into prisons with constant surveillance and harsh, often absurd zero tolerance policies towards drugs, alcohol, weapons, violence and other forms of misbehavior.

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Jason Linkins

Will Fox News Enforce Its "Zero Tolerance" Policy On Recent Error? [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Back in November Fox News Channel, in response to a series of widely reported on-air mistakes, issued a memo that stated: Effective immediately, ther...

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Judges Gone Wild

Dennis Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dennis Danziger

If the Supreme Court rules in favor of allowing school administrators to order students to take it all off, there may be some uncomfortable moments in tough inner city schools like the one where I teach.

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