Teenagers testing boundaries is often seen as being due to defiance, bad judgement, or bad parenting. There are more effective ways to improve behaviour in schools.
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Interviews with parents of students with disabilities show that children were often physically restrained and secluded at school for nonviolent offenses.
Suspending or expelling a student should be a last resort. But our study shows it is more common than it should be in NSW public schools.
A new executive order would create new guidelines on school discipline, suggesting the current ones are ‘discriminatory.’
An Ohio law targeting student suspensions had a happy side effect. Requiring schools to use a positive approach to discipline reduced chronic absenteeism, study says.
We found that schools which created a strong sense of belonging prioritised equity rather than equality.
School board members in one Massachusetts district have called for the National Guard to address student misbehavior. Does their request have merit? A school discipline expert weighs in.
Additional research and attention is needed — particularly in Canada — to provide schools with evidence-based, trauma-informed and culturally attuned approaches to school discipline.
Teachers use tougher language when describing the misbehavior of Black children, new research shows.
Debates about school discipline have become polarized between proponents of restorative justice and those who believe a get-tough approach is required.
A social work scholar researches why school suspensions disproportionately affect students from certain groups and what can be done to change that.
Schools and teachers are reporting increased cases of ill-discipline and behavioural problems as a result of the challenges pupils experienced during the pandemic. Here’s what can be done.
A third of students say they don’t like school, and that dislike often begins around the time they enter high school. But the reasons they give point the way to solutions to this problem.
School suspension rates drop significantly if US teachers came from more diverse backgrounds, a scholar says.
Teachers say school districts have left them in the lurch in the wake of attacks by students. Some admit they resort to violence themselves to send a message to students who might want to test them.
Charter school enrollment grew during the pandemic. But behind these schools’ rising popularity is a history of harsh discipline, inaccessibility and targeted marketing.
When students are allowed to bring personal items for show and tell, it can build their senses of self-worth, belonging and control. But poor kids often don’t get that opportunity.
Suspensions don’t just harm Black children – they also harm their parents’ employment, a school discipline expert argues in a forthcoming book.
An early childhood development expert explains why so many preschoolers are kicked out of child care, and what to do if it happens to your child.
Abuse, neglect or witnessing violence at home can lead kids to misbehave. Some schools are doing away with expulsions to focus on childhood trauma instead.
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Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy, University of Florida
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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Sciences, Illinois State University
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Law, University of South Carolina
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Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Tennessee
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Professor Emeritus of Education Law & Labor, University of New Hampshire
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Professor of Social Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Lecturer Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Professor of Education, School of Education & Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia
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Associate Professor of Latin American & Latino Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Assistant Professor of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor of Education, Furman University
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Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education, The University of Texas at Austin
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Director, North Carolina Education Research Data Center, Associate Director, Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University
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Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Derby