Last week, the Los Angeles Times reported on what appears to be the latest example of restorative classroom-discipline strategies going awry. Alongside a photo that features a scowling police officer, ...

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 ...

Viral moments on social media become viral when it brings to the surface a community’s unspoken battle of values. For example, we have witnessed for a long time—not just during this ...

Université de Montréal provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA-FR. Université de Montréal provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. Sending kindergarten children off ...

It doesn’t get the attention that curriculums and test scores do, but classroom management — the art and craft of keeping a room full of 20 eight-year-olds, or 35 teenagers, engaged and under control ...

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 ...

When kids enter my Grade 7 classroom at the start of the year they usually go about it in one of three ways: bright-eyed and bushy-tailed eager to tackle the year, dreading each footstep (I am ...

Effective teaching and learning in every classroom (be it in a government school, a private school, a college or a university) largely depends on one factor: Successful “classroom management.” Many a ...

LOOK AT THEM FROM ANNAPOLIS. REPORTER: CLASSROOM HORROR STORIES TOLD FWICHERS AND PARENTS INSPIRED THE LEGISLATION. >> THIS IS THE NOTE THAT I FOUND ON MY 9-YEAR-OLD SON, SITTING IN THE DARK, AFTER A ...

After graphic videos of a white police officer arresting a black girl at Spring Valley High School went viral earlier this week, public attention again focused on use of force and the racial dynamics ...