Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... What struck Erika Strauss Chavarria the most was the mutual respect she saw between adults and teenagers at Denver’s North High School. Having watched her ...

As the city and its police union enter their fifth month of contract negotiations, the two groups are finally delving into a historically fraught, much-anticipated topic: discipline for Portland ...

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In the 2021 school year, nearly half of the state’s public and charter school districts over-suspended at least one demographic of students. Black students were disproportionately suspended in most of ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- In August, Action 13 exposed severe discrepancies in discipline for students in the Greater Houston area. Black and Hispanic kids are more likely to miss school because of ...

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, ...

I read with interest the May 30 commentary by Tara Raines on using restorative discipline rather than punishment in schools. As president, Barack Obama stated that school discipline unfairly targeted ...

At the end of the 2018-2019 school year, Selma City School administrators recognized that the way they were approaching students’ problems wasn’t working. Disruptive behavior had gotten out of hand, ...

In a major step away from punitive discipline for students, the San Diego Unified School Board is replacing in-school suspensions with alternative-to-suspension programs and requiring that schools ...

With just two words, a classroom can be thrown into chaos. Anne Gregory, an associate professor of psychology at Rutgers University, recalls just such a scenario when an angry high school student ...

In a major step away from punitive discipline for students, the San Diego Unified School District is replacing in-school suspensions with alternative-to-suspension programs and requiring that schools ...