In ground-breaking action, the Los Angeles Unified school board voted Tuesday to ban suspensionsof defiant students, directing officials to use alternative disciplinary practices instead.
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Posted by Robyn Gee
I remember the first student I ever suspended. He was 13 years old...
[Ed. Note: This essay was written as an entry for an international essay contest held by the Goi Peace Foundation...
By Gene Dean
The second annual Politics and Pedagogy conference was held Saturday at Theodore Roosevelt High School, creating an opportunity for students from various Los Angeles-area high schools to teach about a range of social justice issues within their communities...
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Check out this amazing research, infographic, and video from Adobe, highlighting the need for creativity in education...
LISTEN: School Hopes Talking It Out Keeps Kids From Dropping Out
Out-of-school suspensions are on the rise across the country, a troubling statistic when you consider being suspended just once ups a student’s chances of dropping out entirely.
New America Media, Commentary, Matt Amaral
Walking around a high school campus at this time of year you will notice the air floats a little lighter and the sun reflects off smiles a little brighter...
The effectiveness of school suspensions is up for debate. California is the most recent battleground, but a pattern of uneven application and negative outcomes is apparent across the country...
The NMC and the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD), with the support of Dell Inc...
As part of our school discipline coverage, here is the second in our series of personal narratives about what happens in high school detention. ..
In ground-breaking action, the Los Angeles Unified school board voted Tuesday to ban suspensionsof defiant students, directing officials to use alternative disciplinary practices instead.
From Youth Radio
Graphics by Teresa Chin
School suspensions during freshman year seem to have a lasting effect on students’ high school careers — but not in the way they are intended...
It’s perhaps the biggest congregation of Long Beach activist groups.
It’s the Mayor’s State of the City...
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