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 ...

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 ...

Holding a wooden paddle, Springfield school board member Steve Makoski urged a return to corporal punishment. "I would encourage board members to begin a dialogue — I brought a prop with me here — and ...

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 ...