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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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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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? If “restorative justice” can’t or won’t be done well, don’t do it at all, advises Allison Fried in an Education Week commentary. A middle school teacher in Denver for nearly two years, she quit after...
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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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Race, disability and discipline
Students of color with disabilities are disciplined more often, “not due to higher rates of misbehavior” but because of “structural and systematic factors,” concludes a new report by the U.S. Civil...
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What teachers want: stricter discipline
Teachers want better pay and benefits, and most Americans agree teachers are underpaid, reports the latest PDK Poll of the Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools. That’s not surprising. Sidney...
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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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No ‘justice’ for bullies’ victim
Julia Carlson describes restorative justice gone wrong on Project Forever Free. Her sixth-grade son was targeted by three bullies — threatened, insulted, robbed and beaten — for a month before a...
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I was a teacher — and an enforcer
Rann Miller has a message for those trying to recruit and retain black male teachers: Let them teach. Don’t make them double as disciplinarians. Miller started his teaching career with a class of 43...
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Disabled kids ‘do time’ in locked rooms
ProPublica Illinois and the Chicago Tribune have released a disturbing expose of the use of isolation rooms — padded cells — to control students. Most are children with disabilities. It starts: The...
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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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Good intentions, bad results
The nation’s most progressive cities have higher racial gaps in reading, math and high school graduation than conservative cities, concludes a brightbeam report, The Secret Shame. Racial achievement...
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‘Lord of the Flies’ in middle school
Students plan a walkout Friday at a San Francisco middle school, reports SF Chronicle columnist Heather Knight. Among the demands, she writes, are “clear and consistent behavior guidelines, and...
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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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Safety last?
When he brought a knife to San Diego’s Lincoln High School, the student’s special education team decided he wasn’t responsible because it was “a manifestation of the lack of impulse control caused by...
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