School Discipline

Bullying Can't Be Solved With More Bullying

Meryl Ain, Ed.D. | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Public Schools, School Discipline, Cyberbullying, Bullying, School Suspension, Anti-Bullying, School Administrators, Jessica Barba Video, Jessica Barba Suspended, Education News

Hastily meting out consequences to satisfy a public relations problem hurts everyone and compromises the integrity of the entire school system.

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The Education Revolution

Hernan Vera | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: School Discipline, Minority Education, Education, School System, School Detention, Latino Education, Video, Latino Voices News

Latinos are more likely than white students to receive suspensions. Students with disabilities are twice as likely to get these higher forms of punishment. These large differences continue to be found even when researchers compare students of similar backgrounds.

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Students Speak Out Against Arrests In Public Schools

Posted 04.26.2012

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A coalition of students protested outside Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office Tuesday, calling on the city to implement new disciplinary policies that...

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Humiliating Children In Public: A New Parenting Trend?

Lisa Belkin | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: School Discipline, Juvenile Delinquency, Video, Strict Parenting, School Drop Outs, Discipline, Punishment, Tweens, Punishing Teens, Extreme Parenting, Teen Crime, Disciplining Teens, Parentry, Teens, Slidepollajax, High School, Parents News, Parents News

Maybe it's because the weather has been unseasonably calm this year, but there has been a rash of examples of parents forcing their children to stand out in the open with signs declaring the ways in which the youngsters have misbehaved.

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Why Time-Outs Don't Always Work

Jessica Minahan | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Children's Behavior, Teaching Advice, Time Outs, Child Discipline, Discipline, Psychology, Parenting, Teaching, School Discipline, Parenting Advice, Children's Psychology, Education News

Time-outs don't work for everyone and teachers who don't understand when they should avoid using them could be accidentally intensifying the behavior of some students.

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Schools Must Pull Kids in, Not Turn Them Away

Robert Ross | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Oakland, Education News, School Discipline, Public Schools, California, South Los Angeles, California Teachers Association, Fresno, Boyle Heights, School Suspensions, Schools, The California Endowment, Education News

For each day that a young person is suspended from school, his or her educational attainment experiences a setback.

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New Allegations Surface In Kansas School Student Abuse Lawsuit

AP | ROXANA HEGEMAN | Posted 03.24.2012

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WICHITA, Kan. -- A California boy attends only four days at a Kansas military boarding school where he is tormented by staff and students after breaki...

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Whose Pink Hair Rules Rule? Parents Or Teachers?

Lisa Belkin | Posted 05.23.2012

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The story of 12-year-old Brianna Moore being suspended last week for something her parents said she could do hit a little close to home for me. I have gotten my child in trouble more than once for my own behavior.

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Bronx Youth of Color Most Vulnerable to School Arrests and Summonses

Dinu Ahmed | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: School Discipline, Arrests, Education, Nypd, School Suspensions, Schools, Students, Racial Profiling, South Bronx, Education News

Since the NYPD was awarded control over school safety in 1998, serious questions have been raised regarding the abilities of NYPD School Safety Agents to distinguish minor school disciplinary issues from criminal behavior.

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Officials Attack School-To-Prison Pipeline At School Justice Conference

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.13.2012

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Jakayla Ivory, a St. Louis high-school student convicted of second-degree assault, likely would have gotten two years in jail. Instead, she went to sc...

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Christian School Accused Of Letting Students Punish Other Students By Gagging, Urinating On Them

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 03.12.2012

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Parents of four students have filed suit against the St. John's Military School in Salina, Kan., claiming the Christian school allowed a group of stud...

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Counting On Us: Release of New Civil Rights Data Is the First Step in Helping Our Kids

Deborah J. Vagins | Posted 05.09.2012

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Reliance on practices like suspensions, expulsions and arrests decrease academic achievement and increase the likelihood that students will be pushed out of school, oftentimes into the criminal justice system.

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Are Black Students In LA Racially Profiled?

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: School Discipline, LA Black Students LA Men of Color, Latino Students LA, Achievement Gap, Black Suspension Rates, Los Angeles Men of Color, Los Angeles Suspension, Office of Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Education, Education Department, LA Suspension, Los Angeles Black Students, Education Disparity, Los Angeles News

If you are a black student in Los Angeles, you are almost three times more likely to be suspended than if you are any other race, according to new dat...

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Study: Minority Students Face Harsher Discipline, Fewer Options

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 03.06.2012

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In Chicago public schools, black students receive harsher punishments for in-school infractions than white students, a fact that mirrors a nationwide ...

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Black, Hispanic Students Face More Suspensions

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.06.2012

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Minority students have less access to advanced courses, more inexperienced teachers and face tougher disciplinary consequences than their counterparts...

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Common-Sense Policies Will Transform the Lives of Our Youth

Robert Ross | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: School Attendance, School Discipline, Boys and Men of Color, Los Angeles, Education News

Instead of harsh punitive approaches, we need common-sense school discipline policies that emphasize accountability and work to prevent classroom disruption in the first place.

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Indiana Superintendents Say More Expulsions Will Defend Student Rights

Adam Goldstein | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: First Amendment, Nanny State, Cyberbullying, Expulsion, HB 1169, Parenting, School Discipline, Indiana Association of Public School Superintendents, Censorship, Suspension, Indiana, Education News

Asserting that a bill extending state authority to punish students with no limits whatsoever is a victory for student rights bends reality to the breaking point.

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Chicago School Draws Scrutiny Over Student Fines For Small Disciplinary Infractions

AP | By TAMMY WEBBER | Posted 02.21.2012

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CHICAGO -- A sense of order and decorum prevails at Noble Street College Prep as students move quickly through a hallway adorned with banners from doz...

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Suspended Disbelief

Judith Sandalow | Posted 04.16.2012

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Monday's front page story in the Washington Post focused on the high rate of elementary school suspensions. Understandably, many people find it hard to believe this form of discipline is used so often with children so young.

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Do In-School Police Officers Do More Harm Than Good?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lizzie Schiffman | Posted 01.25.2012

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CHICAGO -- As Chicago Public Schools have become increasingly dependent on the police department to control student behavior on school grounds, a disp...

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School 'Scream Rooms' Outrage Parents

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 01.11.2012

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Parents in Middletown, Conn., are protesting the use of what they're calling "scream rooms" by Farm Hill Elementary School as a way of disciplining mi...

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10-Year-Old Punished For Waving 'Pizza Gun'

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 01.04.2012

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After allegedly waving around a slice of pizza that was possibly shaped like a gun, 10-year-old Nicholas Taylor has been forced to eat lunch at the "s...

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7th Grade Teacher Accused Of Spanking Students

AP | Posted 02.06.2012

LAKE WYLIE, S.C. -- A South Carolina middle school teacher has turned himself in to authorities to face assault and battery charges after he was accus...

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New Study on Student Discipline: Black Kids Take It on the Chin

Peter Meyer | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: School Discipline, Discrimination, Civil Rights Project at UCLA, National Education Policy Center, Education News

As long as white people are writing the rules, interpreting them, and enforcing them, African Americans have something to worry about--and it's not segregation.

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Minority Students Face Harsher Punishments, Report Shows

Posted 12.05.2011

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

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