President Trump holds a signed executive order relating to school discipline policies as Education Secretary Linda McMahon watches in the Oval Office on April 23. (Alex Brandon / Associated Press) ...

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 ...

Student misbehavior hasn’t vanished during distance learning, but schools are finding that imposing discipline in a virtual environment is a complicated and often murky process, and that current laws ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump is once again changing course on federal attempts to chip away at racial disparities in student discipline, issuing an executive order this week that calls on the education ...

Sign up for the On Point newsletter here. Kids lost in school time during the pandemic. When they went back, they brought new behavioral challenges with them. "It’s ...

Violating a school dress code. Using a cellphone in class. Mouthing off at a teacher. There was a time when that kind of behavior, called "willfully defiant" conduct, would get a California public ...