Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Worcester County’s Pocomoke High School opened its doors as usual to 352 students on a bright but chilly Thursday last December. A ...

MPS staff and researchers say restorative practices have improved school climate, even as the district restructures the work.

The U.S. Department of Education kicked off a “Rethinking Discipline” campaign over the summer that could help bring attention to “restorative practices,” an alternative to the zero-tolerance policies ...

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 ...

New York City Parents Raise Concerns Over Schools’ Alternative Discipline Approach ...

Why do students disobey their teachers, fight or act out in other harmful ways? And what’s the best way to fairly discipline all students? In the past two decades, Anne Arundel County schools have ...

Sixth graders at Kingsview Middle School in Germantown, Maryland, in a “community circle” focused on motivation and homework. These efforts are part of the district’s approach to proactively building ...

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, ...

To the editor: The article on the Los Angeles Unified School District’s new discipline policy, which focuses more on “restorative justice” and less on punishment, goes to the core of why public ...

The recent incident in South Carolina, in which a resource officer grabbed and flung a student out of her chair after she refused to handover her cellphone, sent shock waves throughout the country and ...