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Studies have made it clear: Black college students are more likely to observe and experience overt racism and experience microaggressions that communicate that they are intellectually inferior or ...

A change has come to my classroom, and I didn’t even know it. While I’ve been busy teaching, California passed Senate Bill 274 expanding the prohibition of suspensions for low-level defiance behaviors ...

Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. A kindergarten class does a “get to know you circle” where they discuss things they have ...

This article has been adapted from the book Locked Down, Locked Out by Maya Schenwar. As a rising call to close prisons and reduce prison population takes hold, skeptics continually ask what will ...

The Coachella Valley Unified School District has been taking a different approach when it comes to its disciplinary policies. Schools within the district have been turning to “restorative justice” ...

Open, vulnerable, listening and connection. These are the words that come to mind when senior Sophia Christodoulou, co-president of The Petey Greene Program at Tufts, thinks of a restorative practice ...

As schools face rising behavioral challenges, debates rage on about restorative justice, which rejects traditional, punitive discipline in favor of relationship-based work to address underlying causes ...

As data about the ineffectiveness of suspensions and other punitive school disciplinary methods have accumulated and concerns about the school to prison pipeline and mass incarceration have gotten ...

Erika Niles is an instructional coordinator in St. Louis and has served in the field of education for over 20 years as a teacher, instructional coach, and specialist. She works relentlessly to develop ...

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