Educators don’t need another report telling them that classroom behavior is worsening. They’ve told us themselves again, and again, and again. Last winter, the EdWeek Research Center conducted a ...

I once had a principal whose core beginning-of-the-year discipline strategy was insisting, in August meetings, that the first day of any school year should be dominated by reading, illustrating, ...

High school is already a social minefield for teenagers, and the cherry on top is classroom rules and restrictions that can make them feel unmotivated. The basic rules, like no texting, no eating in ...