Any teacher who thinks for a moment that a disruptive student was born that way simply has not done their homework.
When we require our kids to say the obligatory words, "I'm sorry" without actually meaning them, we teach them that words alone can let them off the hook and they don't have to genuinely feel empathy for whoever they have wronged.
The course to all of our health and prosperity starts with changing the odds for our sons and brothers which will build opportunity for all of us. There are real signs of hope and momentum building around the country.
More than 23,000 schools out of 132,000 nationwide have or are discarding a highly punitive approach to school discipline in favor of supportive, compassionate and solution-oriented methods. Those that take the slow-but-steady road can see a 20 percent to 40 percent drop in suspensions.
By Susan FerrissThe Center for Public IntegrityA Mississippi school district under scrutiny for excessive punishment of black students has reached a...
JACKSON, Miss. — The U.S. Justice Department said Friday that it has reached a deal with a Mississippi school district to end discriminatory dis...
NYC Teachers' Free Pass? The Wall Street Journal crunched eight years worth of data, and found that more than 10 percent of principals did not flunk one teacher on their evaluations. "The findings give ammunition to Department of Education officials who say the teacher-rating system should be changed," WSJ's Lisa Fleisher writes. "New York City is one of a handful of school districts statewide that hasn't adopted a new, more nuanced system of grading teachers. ... Under the current system, teachers are either rated unsatisfactory or satisfactory. Annually, less than 3% of teachers citywide are marked "unsatisfactory."
By Laura L. Myers SEATTLE, March 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. Education Department is investigating whether Seattle's public school district...
DENVER -- Amid a chorus of recent announcements that schools nationwide are adding police officers or enhancing security measures, a new agreement bet...
A Chicago mother claims that the charter school her son attends -- and is known for raking in thousands of dollars each year in discipline-related fin...
Deal Or No Deal? This afternoon, United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew said the union was calling it quits on negotiations with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg over teacher evaluations. Shockingly, each side blames the other. What does this mean? The city will lose oh, a couple hundred million dollars in state budget money. Bloomberg says, via Gothamschools, that it's "too soon to tell" whether the loss will necessitate teacher layoffs.
In Holmes County, Miss., a sheriff's car once picked up a 5-year-old. The crime? Wearing shoes with red-and-white symbols, an apparent school dress co...
JACKSON, Miss. — Civil rights advocates say harsh disciplinary practices at many Mississippi schools lead to children being expelled and even in...
Parents and students In Parkersburg, W.V. are furious after a teacher allegedly placed a student with Asperger's Syndrome in a cardboard box labeled "...
Rather than giving all of our kids an opportunity to succeed, expelling and criminalizing young people pulls the rug out from underneath them at childhood, steering them away from college or career, and redirecting them on the path of dropping out and prison.
An Idaho father is furious after his son's kindergarten teacher locked the 5-year-old boy in a small, dark room and forgot him there for at least an h...
A Washington state community is wracked with controversy after a Longview mother posted photos to Facebook of an "isolation booth" for young students ...
Officials in Texas spend $227 million annually on disciplinary problems and school security, according to a recent Texas Appleseed survey of 11 major ...
My son is in kindergarten. With 29 other boys. I volunteered to chaperone their field trip to an apple orchard last week.
A North Carolina teacher says her student "spiked her coffee with butt-enhancing pills." According to WBTV, 61-year-old Ellen Vick, a teacher at I...
Corporal punishment may be under attack once again because we are starting a new school year. But until we outlaw it from every state in the country, we will have the problems associated with it each year.
It isn't fair to pin these generalizations on every Black boy at the school, but it is applicable to a large enough majority of them to have a general expectation that is unfair, racist, and detrimental to their development -- yet tragically accurate.
Under the New York Department of Education’s revised disciplinary code, public-school students can no longer be suspended for one-time, low-level in...
During Elijah's early years in school, Debbie Jackson, his single mother, routinely came home to hear messages of his screams on her answering machine...
I have witnessed countless mean moms that grow up with daughters that, surprise, make Lindsay Lohan look saintly. If only a simple look in the mirror would do the trick.
