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De Vos: Schools are less safe
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is under pressure to rescind — or to preserve — what’s known as the “Obama-era guidance” on school discipline, writes Erika Sanzi in Education Post. A response to high...
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Discipline rules aren’t racist
Students Suspended from School Compared to Student Population, by Race, Sex, and Disability Status, School Year 2013-14 Black students are suspended at three times the rate of whites, according to a...
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AFT, NEA play politics with teacher safety
Michelle Pfeiffer played an ex-Marine turned teacher of low-achieving students in the 1995 movie Dangerous Minds. Teachers across the country are complaining that new, softer discipline policies...
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Glitter jars, bean bags and progress
Second-graders urge each other to walk peacefully and quietly in the halls. Photo: Maddie McGarvey/Atlantic At a Columbus, Ohio school in a high-poverty neighborhood, teachers use different strategies...
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Lax discipline, bullying, chaos and death
A “once safe and supportive” New York City school “fell into chaos as new administrators implemented a supposedly more positive approach to school discipline,” writes Max Eden, a senior fellow at the...
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How restorative justice can work
Students talk at the peace table at a San Jose Montessori school Restorative justice can make schools safer, if it’s done well, writes Maureen Kelleher on Education Post. She sends her daughter to a...
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Less discipline, more disorder
– Education Next 2015 The Obama-era push to reduce suspensions of black students ended up hurting black students, writes Gail Heriot, a member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, on the Volokh...
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Public supports raising teacher pay
Support for raising teacher pay is up this year, especially in states like Oklahoma where teachers have gone on strike or walked out. Public support for raising teacher pay is climbing, reports the...
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‘Sit Down and Shut Up’
In Sit Down and Shut Up, Cinque Henderson recalls his year as a substitute teacher at high-poverty schools in the Los Angeles area. “Discipline can set students free,” he argues. On his first day in...
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DeVos expected to rescind discipline rule
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ school safety commission will recommend rescinding the Obama-era guidance on school discipline, which was meant to reduce racial disparities in suspension, reports...
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My kid can’t wait for ‘justice’ to be ‘restored’
Students attend a restorative justice circle at Hawkins High School in Los Angeles, which reformed its discipline policies. Photo: Damian Dovarganes/AP Citizen Stewart supports replacing out-of-school...
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How to reform discipline
Credit: LA Schools Report Just before Christmas, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos revoked the Obama-era guidance on school discipline, which pressured schools to reduce the much higher suspension and...
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Discipline rules aren’t racist
Students Suspended from School Compared to Student Population, by Race, Sex, and Disability Status, School Year 2013-14 Black students are suspended at three times the rate of whites, according to a...
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K-5 schools are ‘breaking bad’
Elementary schools are “breaking bad,” concludes a new survey by the EAB research firm. “Teachers, principals, and district leaders all agree that behavioral disruptions have increased in grades K...
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De Vos: Schools are less safe
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is under pressure to rescind — or to preserve — what’s known as the “Obama-era guidance” on school discipline, writes Erika Sanzi in Education Post. A response to high...
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Keys to success: Discipline, direct instruction
Effective principals, strong discipline and direct and explicit instruction are the keys to success at Australian schools with disadvantaged students, concludes a study called Overcoming the Odds....
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? Katharine Birbalsingh is the founder of Michaela Community School, considered “Britain’s strictest school.” The “free school,” the British equivalent of a charter school, stresses order and...
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Discipline rules aren’t racist
Students Suspended from School Compared to Student Population, by Race, Sex, and Disability Status, School Year 2013-14 Black students are suspended at three times the rate of whites, according to a...
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What’s the best way to keep classrooms safe?
Teachers aren’t prepared to handle discipline problems in their classrooms, say 54 percent of respondents to a Communities in Schools poll conducted by Gallup. Nearly nine in 10 said improving the...
View ArticleDiscipline: hawks vs. doves
As a “school-discipline hawk,” Checker Finn believes “the first obligation of schools is to keep kids safe and their second obligation is to create and preserve a calm environment in which those who...
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