School Discipline

Research and data suggest that Black girls in U.S. public schools are disciplined more harshly than white girls. A study in the Journal of Black Psychology that’s co-authored by a Washington University professor finds that programming for Black girls can boost self-esteem and helps with racial trauma.

School districts across the country have begun punishing students by forcing them into online classes, sometimes indefinitely.

A Democratic state representative from St. Louis claims school suspensions do no good and should be prohibited in grades K-3.

There are no desks in AP Latin class at University City High School. Students instead “circle up” by facing each other in plastic chairs.As the stuffed…

That fear of waiting outside the principal’s office to be punished after a disagreement between students is being replaced, in part, by a less…

This a preview of an upcoming episode of St. Louis Public Radio’s We Live Here, a podcast that explores race, class, power and poverty in the St. Louis…

Updated 12:15 p.m., Nov. 5 with audio from the town hall—More than 100 educators, parents and students came together Wednesday, Oct. 28, to talk about the…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: Besides hearing updated figures on Normandy High School's discipline incidents, the district's school…