Should Schools Punish Students for Their Activities Off-Campus?
Update: Karen Washington, a social studies teacher at Watertown High School in Massachusetts, used this story as the foundation for a classroom discussion. Here's what her students had to say.In recent...
View ArticleSchool Discipline: It's Different For Black Girls
There's been a lot of discussion about how black men and black boys are treated by the justice system. But today we bring you a story about how black girls—elementary and high school...
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School Discipline: From Corporal Punishment to Mediation
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.Last year, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights found that black students are, on average, three times more likely to be...
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N.Y.C.L.U. to City: Let Educators Handle School Discipline
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s Young Men’s Initiative, which was announced in August, identifies problems afflicting too many young men of color: high suspension and arrest rates, and low graduation and...
View ArticleCity Reports More Suspensions, but Serious Crimes Declined
City schools reported handing out more suspensions to students in the last year than before, but most of that increase was owed to a jump in less-serious infractions, while reported cases of egregious...
View ArticleFinding Patterns in School Suspension Figures
Tuesday was a big day for education news in New York, with the release of the annual Nation's Report Card; a first accounting by the city of school discipline and violence reports; some announcements...
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Reporting on Student Suspensions Is the First Step
We have known for years that the New York Police Department handcuffs misbehaving schoolchildren as young as 5. But just how deep and wide the use of punitive tactics against young children has been...
View ArticlePolice Release Quarterly Report on School Arrests
Nearly half of the students arrested inside New York City schools in July through September were under the age of 16, according to a report on school arrests by the New York City Police Department that...
View ArticleBlack Students Face Harsher Discipline, Study Says
It is a local truth, but it is also a national one: black students, and boys in particular, are more likely to be harshly disciplined in school than other students, according to new data from the...
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'No-Excuses' Charters Grapple with Attrition
At Democracy Prep Harlem Middle School, a sixth grade math teacher started her class by giving her students exactly four minutes to solve a problem involving ratios. When her watch beeped, homework was...
View ArticleMeet Your Mind: Mind and Brain
Broadcast Times: Sunday, 7am on AM 820 and 9pm on 93.9FM Neuroscientists have made remarkable discoveries about the brain, but we're not close to cracking the mystery of consciousness. How does a...
View ArticleSchool Discipline and Crime
Judith Kaye, former chief judge of the State of New York, discusses the findings of the blue-ribbon task force on education and justice in New York City's public schools.
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Thousands of kids are arrested in school every year. About a third of U.S. schools have a regular police presence on campus; some school districts even have their own police forces. As the number of...
View ArticleNew York City School Suspensions Remains Flat
More than 53,000 suspensions were issued in the New York City public schools last year, almost the same number as in the previous school year.Once again, black and Hispanic students students comprised...
View ArticleTop 8 Items on New York's Education Agenda for 2015
Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration made the expansion of pre-kindergarten its top priority in the early months of 2014, and the Mayor got the money wanted from Albany to create more than 50,000...
View ArticleReport: Discipline at Many Charter Schools Violates Students' Rights
A review of discipline policies in New York City charter schools found a large number violated state and federal civil rights laws. A charter school spokesman disputed the report, saying it distorted...
View ArticleNew York City Schools Chief Outlines Discipline Changes That Scale Back...
New York City Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña released on Friday a long-awaited update to the public school system's discipline code that would make it harder to remove a student from school for minor...
View ArticleFrom detention to detainment in Virginia
Ever walk or drive by a school and see a police officer stationed on campus? That’s probably a “school resource officer.” He or she is there to – ostensibly – keep the criminal element at bay (i.e.,...
View ArticleAlternatives to Suspension: Inside a 'Restorative Justice' High School
Last fall, two seniors at the Expeditionary Learning School for Community Leaders got into one of those disputes that starts off small and spirals out of control. According to the girls, one of them...
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Addressing Student Behavior with a 'Restorative Justice' Circle
At the Expeditionary Learning School for Community Leaders in Coney Island, "restorative justice" is used mainly in two ways. Students who get into disputes are sent to mediation so they can work out...
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