Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This article was originally published in Missouri Independent. Early on in his administrative career, longtime Missouri educator ...

COLLINS — At the beginning of every school year, April Johnson oversees the distribution of the Covington County School District student handbook. Tucked into the first half is a section titled ...

"The practice of corporal punishment is antithetical to positive child and adolescent development and school safety," Education Secretary Miguel Cardona wrote in a letter to education officials across ...

Nearly a half-century after the Supreme Court ruled that school spankings are permissible and not “cruel and unusual punishment,” many U.S. states allow physical punishment for students who have ...

I am dismayed at the level of interest and attention that has been directed toward the subject of corporal punishment at St. Augustine High School. As a graduate of Jesuit High School in the early ...

Smoking in the teacher’s lounge between classes. Hitting kids with rulers or paddles. Posting students’ grades publicly on the wall. Running the entire class without any electronic devices, internet, ...

Early on in his administrative career, longtime Missouri educator Chris Belcher had what he called the worst experience of his life. “The kid screamed, and I felt awful,” he said. He didn’t want to do ...

Kayla Brady's son was in fifth grade when his elementary school principal smacked him with a paddle for, as she put it, "not minding the teacher." The incident left bright red marks on the boy's ...