This article has been adapted from the book Locked Down, Locked Out by Maya Schenwar. As a rising call to close prisons and reduce prison population takes hold, skeptics continually ask what will ...

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ST. PAUL - Nikki Staab was on vacation in October when a fight broke out in her usually well-mannered seventh-grade science class at Farnsworth Aerospace school in St. Paul. In a typical year, the ...

As schools face rising behavioral challenges, debates rage on about restorative justice, which rejects traditional, punitive discipline in favor of relationship-based work to address underlying causes ...

EdSource · This California Teacher of the Year embraces her dwarfism as a strength A change has come to my classroom, and I didn’t even know it. While I’ve been busy teaching, California passed Senate ...

Assistant principal Sarah Tompkins, left, listens as a seventh grader discusses a recent conflict with another student solved through restorative justice, which included teachers and students ...

The main purpose of a retributive justice system is to restore the injured party back to before the injustice occurred. If that is not possible, the purpose is to ensure that the offending party is ...

Restorative practices promote the creation of spaces of trust and respect, with members of the campus community coming together for difficult conversations, deep listening, and restorative dialogue ...