Sometimes, the boundaries between exclusionary practices and removals are “fuzzy,” the researchers found. As an inclusive practice, a teacher may offer a “cool down corner” for students to sit and ...

The Midland ISD Board of Trustees unanimously approved new policies this week aimed at strengthening classroom discipline and ...

Jal: As with many of the things we discuss here, restorative justice is an idea that is admirable in theory but difficult to pull off in practice, in particular because it is so misaligned with much ...

In “Straight Talk with Rick and Jal,” Harvard University’s Jal Mehta and I examine some of the reforms and enthusiasms that permeate education. In a field full of buzzwords and jargon, our goal is ...

Nadene Casteel, a teacher at Heritage Rose Elementary School in Fort Bend County, says classrooms have become increasingly difficult to manage since the pandemic. Texas lawmakers are pushing for ...

The simple two-letter word was all it took to set off chaos at Heritage Rose Elementary last week. About a hundred children were sitting cross-legged in a hallway, ready to be dismissed to go home, ...

Millions of classrooms throughout the U.S. and internationally have begun adopting computerized apps (e.g., ClassDojo) to provide students with rewards and punishments as a part of classroom ...

Tennessee schools are increasingly punishing and excluding special education students with behavioral issues instead of providing them with evidence-based interventions to support their academic and ...

In fact, discipline can make students feel disconnected from their schools and push them to skip class or drop out. “There's really a mismatch…I don't think that these bills, unfortunately, are going ...

LOOK AT THEM FROM ANNAPOLIS. REPORTER: CLASSROOM HORROR STORIES TOLD FWICHERS AND PARENTS INSPIRED THE LEGISLATION. >> THIS IS THE NOTE THAT I FOUND ON MY 9-YEAR-OLD SON, SITTING IN THE DARK, AFTER A ...