If we want our kids to succeed in school, the first step is making sure they’re actually in class. But a stark disparity in discipline results in removing black students from school far too frequently ...

October 30, 2025 - Miliani Rodriguez attends Coachella Valley High School, where the AC often breaks in over 100-degree heat and when it rains, the ceilings leak. Student misbehavior hasn’t vanished ...

It wasn’t the first time Ventrese Curry’s granddaughter had gotten into trouble at school. A seventh grader at a charter school in St. Louis, Missouri, she had a long history of disrupting her classes ...

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is issuing new recommendations on classroom discipline that seek to end the apparent disparities in how students of different races are punished for violating ...

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 ...

When middle school students at Sam Rayburn in Bryan get in trouble during class, they typically end up down the hall in the principal's office. But a new pilot program from the state is aiming to find ...

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 ...

President Trump holds a signed executive order relating to school discipline policies as Education Secretary Linda McMahon watches in the Oval Office on April 23. (Alex Brandon / Associated Press) ...

Violating a school dress code. Using a cellphone in class. Mouthing off at a teacher. There was a time when that kind of behavior, called "willfully defiant" conduct, would get a California public ...