Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Trump holds a signed executive order relating to school discipline policies as Education Secretary Linda McMahon watches ...

It wasn’t the first time Ventrese Curry’s granddaughter had gotten into trouble at school. A seventh grader at a charter school in St. Louis, Missouri, she had a long history of disrupting her classes ...

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 ...

Student misbehavior hasn’t vanished during distance learning, but schools are finding that imposing discipline in a virtual environment is a complicated and often murky process, and that current laws ...

Jen Bondeson’s May 25 article “[E]ducators discuss state’s proposed discipline policies” covered a recent discussion about proposed changes to Maryland’s education laws. The changes would further ...

Violating a school dress code. Using a cellphone in class. Mouthing off at a teacher. There was a time when that kind of behavior, called "willfully defiant" conduct, would get a California public ...