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Julia Steiny: Our Punitive Mindset Blinds us to Effective Discipline
Dear President Obama, Millions of us are encouraged by your demand that schools reduce suspensions for black males. Julia Steiny No research shows that suspensions teach kids the social skills they...
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Oakland Strikes Bargain with DOE to Reduce Suspensions
Since a U.S. Department of Education data release that showed that black and Hispanic students were more likely to receive the most severe punishments for disciplinary infractions – such as suspension...
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Wake County Changes Conduct Code, Eases Suspension Policies
Wake County, North Carolina schools are set for a major overhaul of the punishments they mete out to students. Currently, most serious school offenses in Wake County result in out-of-school...
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Create More Disciplinary Options Than just Suspensions and Cops
by Julia Steiny If you look into school-suspension data — state or local — you’ll find a bunch of numbers that tell you nothing about the severity of the offenses. You’ll find high rates clustered in...
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Minneapolis Looks to Race on Reviewing Individual Suspensions
In Minneapolis, public school officials are making major changes in the way certain segments of the student population are disciplined. All suspensions of students of color that do not involve...
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Report Shows School Suspensions Amount to 18 Million Days
New research from the University of California at Los Angeles has found that despite suspension rates dropping in school districts across the country, US students still lost around 18 million school...
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Data Shows Black Students Continue to be Suspended More Often
Reports and a recent national study show that black students are being suspended more often than white students across the school spectrum from elementary through high school. States such as Ohio,...
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Give Students a Voice So They Can Improve Their Own School
By Julia Steiny Regina Winkfield, Principal of E-Cubed Academy in Providence, went into a minor tailspin when district budget cuts eliminated her Student Resource Officer (SRO). Of course, SROs are a...
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Study: Suspensions, Zero Tolerance Policies Don’t Curb Drug Use
Data from the International Youth Development Survey, which collected representative samples of 7th and 9th grade students in Washington State and Victoria, Australia, found that “students attending...
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Arrests, Suspensions Down in New York City Schools
New statistics recently released by New York City Education Department officials show a decline in arrests and suspensions in New York City schools. For years now, the trend has shown a decrease in...
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New York City School Suspensions Continue to Decline
Officials for the Department of Education have reported a decline in the number of suspensions handed out in New York City schools last year, which fell by about 9,000 suspensions, or 17%. According...
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Texas Appleseed Report Calls for Reducing Elementary Suspensions
In Texas, the three districts with the highest suspension rates are Fort Worth, Dallas, and Arlington. Fort Worth suspended pre-K through fifth graders eight times as often as Austin did even though...
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Los Angeles Teachers Say New Discipline Rules Harm Classrooms
A growing number of teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District are arguing that a new policy implemented in an effort to reduce the number of student suspensions is causing a rise in the...
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Report: Suspension Rates Down in California as Graduation Rates Rise
According to a new study released by UCLA’s Civil Rights Project, the number of school suspensions handed out in California between 2011 and 2014 has seen a tremendous decrease as academic achievement...
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CA, WA Schools Doling Out Harsher Punishments to Minority Students
Recent studies show that schools may be doling out harsher punishments for minority students – and the issue seems to start at a very early age. While suspension and expulsion are both widely-accepted...
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Julia Steiny: Instead of School Suspensions, Let’s Listen to Kids
By Julia Steiny Allow me to say right off the top that I believe each out-of-school suspension is a symptom of a mental or social issue. I’d call them symptoms of disease, but some are more like...
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Julia Steiny: School Suspensions Model the Wrong Behavior for Students
By Julia Steiny Last week we looked at reasons why kids misbehave — how sometimes they can’t or they won’t act in community-appropriate ways. Whether it’s a choice for them or not, it’s always a big...
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Report Shows Charter Schools Suspend Disabled, Minority Students More
(Photo: Creative Commons) According to a recent analysis of federal education data, charter schools are more likely to suspend black students and students with disabilities than their white and...
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Study: Focus on Empathy, Not Punishment, Improves Discipline
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) Suspending a child from school may be more harmful than helpful — when a child is sent home as a punishment for misbehaving at school, it results in lost opportunities...
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Report Cites DC, New Orleans as Discipline Reform Models
(Photo: Flickr, Creative Commons) The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), an organization dedicated to making public education more effective, especially for America’s most disadvantaged...
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