Nearly a decade after Tyler Clementi’s death, there are growing efforts to do more to protect students like him from their peers.
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos discusses ‘expanding education freedom’ for American students.
Research suggests that kids benefit when there are fewer of them in a classroom. But quickly reducing class size can cause new problems as schools scramble to hire new teachers.
Amid plans to create special sports divisions for high-poverty schools, coaches at such schools explain how they produce championship-winning teams despite having fewer resources.
What it means to be a good teacher has changed over time, along with prevailing views on what constitutes appropriate behavior.
Teachers’ unions often say they go on strike to improve conditions for students. A closer look at recent walkouts suggests they are also fighting for something else: membership.
Efforts to ‘harden’ school buildings could distract from the need to focus on human behavior and what’s known about school shooters.
When it comes to completing homework, getting organized and celebrating small victories along the way is key, an expert on learning strategies says.
About one-third of America’s primary schools have a school police officer on hand. Do these officers make schools safer, or are they turning primary schools into mini police precincts?
When families need to spend more time and money taking care of their kids on weekdays, it can take a toll on careers – especially for women.
School integration is often thought of as something that took place in the 1960s. But the first Black student to desegregate a school by court order was an Iowa girl named Susan Clark in 1868.
As comparisons are made between the finances of private and public schools, investment in a creative education for all should be prioritised.
A technique developed for teachers and tutors can work if followed by the child’s loved ones.
Under the right circumstances, homework help from parents is helpful.
How much homework kids should do is a subject of great debate.
New data show more girls and minority high school students taking Advanced Placement courses in computer science. A computer science professor weighs in on what that means for the future of the field.
While more and more countries have moved to ban corporal punishment in schools, certain types of nations have been slower than others to outlaw the practice. A recent analysis seeks to explain why.
A federal report reveals that most school districts are failing to inspect their buildings for lead-based paint hazards and, when they do, often fail to tell parents about what they found.
When the Supreme Court exempted suburbs in the North from the kind of desegregation orders imposed in the South, it enabled the ‘de facto’ segregation that continues in America’s schools to this day.
A professor of information discusses how an app she developed can help solve the problem of schools failing to report when students are restrained or secluded.
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Joseph Panzer Chair in Education and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton
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