EdSource stories tagged with:
Discipline
February 13, 2015
Report urges schools to do more for pregnant students
Many pregnant teenagers in the Central Valley are highly motivated to graduate from high school and continue their education, but some schools make the task more difficult, according to a report released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.
Jane Meredith Adams
January 29, 2015
Districts detail plans for suspension reductions in local plans
Nearly every school district says it wants to reduce student suspensions, but only some have created plans with the kind of detail, funding and statistical savvy that make it more likely they'll succeed, according to a report released Wednesday that analyzed plans to improve "school climate" in the 50 largest school districts in California.
Jane Meredith Adams
January 14, 2015
Suspensions, expulsions down statewide
New state data show a steep drop in suspensions and expulsions of California students, continuing a downward trend. Altogether, 20 percent fewer students were expelled and 15 percent fewer students were suspended in 2013-14 than in the previous year.
Susan Frey
January 8, 2015
Study: Suspensions harm 'well-behaved' kids
It’s a belief repeated every day by teachers, principals and parents of rule-abiding children: Suspending disruptive students will allow the rest of the class to settle down and learn. But a new, large study calls this rationale into question.
Jane Meredith Adams
January 7, 2015
New laws to improve student health supports
A slew of new laws affecting students’ physical, emotional and behavioral wellbeing will change how schools operate this year, in ways large and small. The laws regulate basic needs grants for truant students, pesticide use and expulsions for "willfully defiant" behavior, among other issues.
Jane Meredith Adams
November 30, 2014
Positive discipline gets boost in district plans
With a big push from the state’s new approach to education spending, many California school districts appear to be ramping up investments in positive approaches to discipline.
Jane Meredith Adams
November 24, 2014
Network on school discipline launched
In response to efforts in many California school districts to reduce suspensions and expulsions, EdSource is convening an Educators Network for Effective School Discipline to help school and district officials as well as teachers share best practices and collaborate on successful strategies.
Louis Freedberg
November 18, 2014
Students in high poverty schools lose learning time
Even though schools across California offer similar amounts of instructional time each week, and instructional days during the school year, students in high poverty schools get far less time for actual learning, a new report concludes.
Louis Freedberg
November 9, 2014
Hayward community tackles truancy
Hayward school officials, police, businesses and churches are taking a gentle approach to reducing high truancy rates among students. Merchants are refusing to serve school-aged youths during school hours, and if students persist, police take them back to school to get them help staying in class.
Susan Frey
October 8, 2014
Judge orders state to fix troubled L.A. school
A state judge Wednesday ordered the California Department of Education to intervene at a south Los Angeles high school where some students have spent eight weeks in classes during which they received no instruction.
Jane Meredith Adams And John Fensterwald
October 6, 2014
Online resource offers help with discipline
Educators who want to implement more positive disciplinary practices can now access an online national repository of research-based alternatives to suspension and expulsion: the National Clearinghouse on Supportive School Discipline (NCSSD).
Susan Frey
October 2, 2014
State introduces tools for school change
With districts working this fall to put into action their first locally created school accountability plans, the California Department of Education rolled out a new online resource center on Thursday designed to help schools change.
Jane Meredith Adams
September 28, 2014
New law limits student discipline measure
A new law that limits the use of “willful defiance” as a reason to expel or suspend students signifies a growing commitment on the part of the state to find more positive approaches to disciplining students.