When it was time to return to school in person for her junior year, Kimberly Higareda was resistant. She had gotten used to being at home, multitasking while attending her Zoom classes and having time ...

Our diversifying high school in northern Colorado is navigating community fractures through the implementation of restorative practices, approaches aimed at building relationships and responding to ...

Worcester County’s Pocomoke High School opened its doors as usual to 352 students on a bright but chilly Thursday last December. A mix of mellow pop hits played in the background, and students at the ...

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The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee on Thursday reviewed an updated middle-high school student handbook that ...

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 ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (CITC) — The largest school district in Oregonis being accused of discriminating against students based on their race through its new discipline policy. Portland Public Schools (PPS) ...

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 ...

Author, professor and trailblazing activist Bell Hooks once said: "To build community requires vigilant awareness … rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of community." ...

Spending time in the classroom benefits incarcerated individuals because it allows them to feel like students rather than prisoners, according to Patrick Conway, director of Boston College’s Prison ...