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AFT, NEA play politics with teacher safety
Teachers across the country are complaining that new, softer discipline policies aren’t working, writes Max Eden, a senior fellow at the...

Joanne Jacobs
May 13, 20182 min read


De Vos: Schools are less safe
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is under pressure to rescind — or to preserve — what’s known as the “Obama-era guidance” on school...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 12, 20183 min read
Parents, stop coddling your kids
Students and parents disrespect teachers, complained Julie Marburger in a Facebook post that went viral. She teaches sixth grade in a...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 12, 20181 min read


Students — but not teachers — are safer
Students feel safer in school, according to a Indicators of School Crime and Safety 2017, an annual federal report that analyzed 2015-16...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 1, 20181 min read


Safety last?
When he brought a knife to San Diego’s Lincoln High School, the student’s special education team decided he wasn’t responsible because it...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 29, 20182 min read


After jail, back to school
Broward County’s school system has built a prison-to-school pipeline, writes Paul Sperry of RealClearInvestigations. “Thousands of other...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 19, 20182 min read


He sat in class — and got suspended
While other students walked out of school to protest gun violence, Jacob Shoemaker sat in class alone. The Hilliard Davidson High senior...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 16, 20181 min read


Discipline reform: Did it go too far?
Discipline reform may have contributed to the violence at Douglas High School, writes Erika Sanzi, who blogs on Good School Hunting, on...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 7, 20182 min read


Hugs and guns to keep kids safe
Pamela Revels “dispenses hugs and smiles” at schools around Auburn, Alabama, reports the New York Times in a story about school resource...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 6, 20182 min read


‘It was never enough to get him arrested’
Parkland, Florida students and teachers are returning to Stoneman Douglas High this week, though not to the freshman building where a...

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 25, 20182 min read


Principal pays kids not to fight
At a high-poverty, low-performing K-8 school in Philadelphia, eighth graders don’t get into fights any more. Their principal promised...

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 13, 20182 min read


Orderly classrooms help disadvantaged kids
Orderly classrooms help disadvantaged students become achievers, writes Greg Ashman, who teaches in Australia. He cites an OECD working...

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 5, 20181 min read


Reforming school discipline: Too fast?
Is school discipline reform moving too fast? asks Wayne D’Orio in The Atlantic. In the Highline district south of Seattle, suspensions...

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 21, 20182 min read


New suspension policy does little in Philly
Philadelphia’s discipline reforms, which limited suspensions, improved attendance but not achievement for previously suspended students...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 10, 20172 min read


Soft discipline is bigotry of low expectations
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos appears to be gearing up to rescind Obama-era discipline policies. A 2014 “Dear Colleague” letter warned...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 28, 20172 min read
Feds could narrow civil rights investigations
The U.S. Education Department is considering a proposal to narrow civil rights investigations to focus on individual complaints rather...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 27, 20171 min read


Why I’m not involved in my kid’s school
Jung-ah Choi, a “college faculty member, teaching and writing about social justice, race, and education,” isn’t involved in her son’s...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 13, 20172 min read


Bullying leads to murder, suicide try
At a Bronx school where a bullied student killed a classmate, a bullied sixth grader tried to hang himself with his sweater, reports...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 30, 20172 min read


Revoke federal letter on suspensions, race
School safety is more important than racial balance in suspensions, argues Jason L. Riley in the Wall Street Journal. Education Secretary...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 13, 20172 min read


Is your 5-year-old an anarchist?
In Pasco County, Florida, parents don’t like “new behavior expectation charts that suggest conforming to peer pressure is positive, and...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 23, 20171 min read
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