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Suspensions plummet in NC school with restorative practices
A restorative practices program at McDougle Middle School in North Carolina has resulted in a 74% drop in major discipline referrals. That has convinced Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools to take the approach in all of their schools.
Academics lament eroding college culture’s negative impacts on character, marriage, families
Two veteran academics are ringing the alarms about the behavior and mindset of college students in America today, pointing to a “profoundly unintellectual” environment rife with sexual promiscuity that’s undermining marriages and families.
Private school officials discuss how faith shapes school culture, breeds academic success
St. Joseph Catholic School Principal Wade Laffey wants parents to know that the private religious school is more than a public school with a religion class.
IN schools shift from punitive to restorative student discipline
A new state law is forcing Indiana schools to adopt a restorative justice approach to student discipline, with the underlying goal of reducing disproportional suspensions and discipline of minority students.
Sophomores at Delaware school lead student walk-out
Students around the nation at public and non-public schools are taking action in the wake of the Parkland shooting in Florida. In Delaware, students of Wilmington Friends Upper School stood for 17 minutes in silence in honor of the 17 killed and to protest gun violence.
The Role of a School Leader is to Set the School’s Culture
Modeling behavior, consistency, collective accountability, and relationship building
Creating a Sense of Belonging Amongst Our Earliest Learners
We don’t have to do it all alone
UI students launch nonprofit to help disabled classmates navigate college
University of Iowa student Michael Penniman is changing the way disabled students experience college with the help of two friends and a nonprofit start-up they launched last year.
Daniel Scoggin on “Character is a ‘Yes'”
Character does not involve just saying “no” but saying “yes” to a truth larger than oneself.
On School Grounds: Transcript of Interview with Patricia Maloney on Charter High Schools
This is a lightly edited transcript of an interview conducted on April 23, 2019, with sociologist Patricia Maloney.
Students take control of their curriculum
The Achievement First charter school network is modifying its approach at several schools to test a new Greenfield model that give students more autonomy over their education, an effort to promote responsible learning that will help students through college.
Expeditionary Learning School builds character first
It’s a brave kindergarten student who will step up to a microphone and address their school’s 250 community members. This is a weekly occurrence at Sierra Expeditionary Learning School (SELS), where kindergarteners share this duty with fellow students, who range all the way up to 8th grade.