The skirmish last fall began on a Montgomery County school bus. Someone — no one is sure who — tossed a water bottle from the back of the bus, smacking a sixth-grader sitting near the front. The next ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Worcester County’s Pocomoke High School opened its doors as usual to 352 students on a bright but chilly Thursday last December. A ...

Don Carney knew when he got the word from Marin County Superior Court Judge Beverly Wood that a big test was on the horizon. “Everyone would like to give restorative justice a chance here,” Wood wrote ...

More and more schools are using restorative practices instead of punitive policies to deal with conflicts. This multipart series will share practical suggestions from educators who have actually been ...

On a winter Monday morning at Audubon High School in Milwaukee, three ninth-graders huddled and fussed over an egg named Billy Bob. Amber Sengsourisack used a marker to draw the egg’s anxious facial ...

While Georgetown University tweaks its Code of Student Conduct every year, the university systems outlined in it do not fully address the needs of students, favoring a more traditional, historically ...

A change has come to my classroom, and I didn’t even know it. While I’ve been busy teaching, California passed Senate Bill 274 expanding the prohibition of suspensions for low-level defiance behaviors ...

On a winter Monday morning at Audubon High School in Milwaukee, three ninth-graders huddled and fussed over an egg named Billy Bob. Amber Sengsourisack used a marker to draw the egg’s anxious facial ...

There are a number of different methods utilized in adaptable resolution. Below are some "pathways" parties can choose to negotiate a resolution agreement. Regardless of pathway, the process will ...

Call me crazy - but I think we are ready for a Revolution. I'm talking about a revolution in the way we approach justice, transgression, punishment, crime, and every day conflict among ordinary people ...