Tag: School discipline
Black girls are 4.19 times more likely to get suspended than...
Andrea Joseph-McCatty, University of Tennessee
Andrea Joseph-McCatty is an assistant professor at the College of Social Work at the...
Students are suspended less when their teacher has the same race...
Matthew Shirrell, George Washington University
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Teachers must often face student attacks alone
Charles Bell, Illinois State University
When “Ms. Kyles,” a social studies teacher in a suburban district, heard her colleague scream in a nearby classroom, she...
Why charter schools are not as ‘public’ as they claim to...
Kevin Welner, University of Colorado Boulder
Proponents of charter schools insist that they are public schools “open to all...
Millions of kids get suspended or expelled each year – but...
Alysse Loomis, University of Utah
Each school year, nearly 3 million K-12 students get suspended and over 100,000 get...
Schools must act carefully on students’ off-campus speech, Supreme Court rules
Katy Harriger, Wake Forest University
For decades, U.S. courts have ruled that public school students “do not shed their...
Video shows students still get paddled in US schools
F. Chris Curran, University of Florida
The image of a teacher paddling or spanking a student at school may...
‘Early warning’ systems in schools can be dangerous in the hands...
F. Chris Curran, University of Florida
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many students are getting lower grades and inconsistently attending classes. For students in one Florida...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
