A much-discussed bill meant to give teachers more control over classroom discipline issues failed to complete the legislative process. The House and Senate passed separate bills focused on how to ...

Jal: As with many of the things we discuss here, restorative justice is an idea that is admirable in theory but difficult to pull off in practice, in particular because it is so misaligned with much ...

In “Straight Talk with Rick and Jal,” Harvard University’s Jal Mehta and I examine some of the reforms and enthusiasms that permeate education. In a field full of buzzwords and jargon, our goal is ...

Over time, every teacher makes small changes that have a big impact on how their classes run. A veteran teacher shares the ...

Leila Lubin doesn’t see the point in suspending students or making them miss instructional time for their misbehavior. She works hard to incentivize good behavior and chooses nonpunitive alternatives ...

The problem of students misbehaving in the classroom is as old as school itself. However, disruptive student behavior has gotten worse. A national survey by the American Psychological Association ...

Four candidates for the Joplin Board of Education answered questions, including how the district should handle classroom incidents involving unruly children, teacher retention and in-school use of ...