Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Worcester County’s Pocomoke High School opened its doors as usual to 352 students on a bright but chilly Thursday last December. A ...

A core principle of restorative practices is that they are most effective when used before any conflict has occurred.

The Post and Courier recently reported that a majority of Charleston County School Board members supports transitioning from the district’s current discipline plan to a "restorative practices" model.

Public schools across our country have adopted “restorative” practices to manage student discipline, claiming these policies restore the relationship between the victim and bully while lowering the ...

Student success should come from celebrating achievement, not punishing children’s behavior. Restorative practices in schools have emerged as a transformative approach to building strong schools and ...

The Milford Board of Education voted unanimously Monday to remove restorative practices from the student code of conduct for all grades. The decision comes just one school year after the decision to ...

The result may be an increase in the use of what the researchers at Stanford call “informal exclusionary discipline practices.” The qualitative study found that early childhood settings in the San ...

Ed Talk is a biweekly opinion column. The views expressed are solely the author’s. May 17 marks the 67th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the landmark Supreme Court case that ...

Last spring, a Comsewogue High School junior was caught vaping in school. In the past, the student would have faced five days of out-of-school suspension. But because the district two years ago ...

In a guest column, Daniel Malec, executive director at the Georgia Conflict Center, offers advice to Gwinnett County Public Schools on how to change the culture around student discipline and involve ...

The U.S. Department of Education kicked off a “Rethinking Discipline” campaign over the summer that could help bring attention to “restorative practices,” an alternative to the zero-tolerance policies ...

Pocomoke High School in Maryland has implemented "restorative practices" to address student discipline and foster a positive learning environment. This approach, emphasizing communication and conflict ...