My first exposure to prison education was in 2010, when I participated in the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program as an undergraduate at The Ohio State University. Each week, I sat beside incarcerated ...

A judge handed down a one-year prison sentence this week for a former Miamisburg teacher convicted of having sex with a 14-year-old in her middle school classroom. The punishment for Jessica Langford ...

“Is there a right way to forgive?” Lety Z. Montoya wondered out loud. “If I don’t feel these positive things that come after, did I do it wrong? Did I not mean it?” A few of her classmates nodded ...

CHESTERFIELD -- About a half-dozen students sat at their desks, listening as a guest speaker led them through a discussion about the election process and the combination of factors that made Donald ...

A 32-year-old Ohio teacher found guilty of having sex with a 14-year-old student inside her locked classroom has been sentenced to one year in prison, dodging calls from the victim’s father to have ...

New York City has more than 5,000 police officers patrolling the city’s schools—that’s more than the combined number of school guidance counselors and social workers. Nationwide, more than 17,000 ...

A partnership with a prison helped one educator see her university teaching in a different light. Find out how ...

Passing through the sally port at Indiana Women’s Prison for the first time, someone comforted me: “Once you’re inside, it looks just like a junior college.” “An institution is an institution,” I ...

DALTON, Ga. — Authorities said mental health treatment was an important consideration in plea negotiations with a North Georgia teacher who barricaded himself inside his classroom in February and ...

A former Georgia teacher was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison after a February incident in which he fired a revolver in his classroom. Jesse Randal Davidson, 53, pleaded guilty to first-degree ...

I t was a mortifying yet common experience for academics: We walked into our team-taught course one Wednesday evening to find only five students out of 40 in attendance. It was a session we’d ...