Report: Minority students face harsher punishments

Black and Latino students are disproportionately more likely to experience harsher punishments by schools for infractions and misbehaviors, according to a new report by the National Education Policy Center, the Huffington Post reports. At times, the punishments are unrelated to student safety. While past research has suggested that zero-tolerance discipline that removes troublemakers can improve the learning environment for and safety of well-behaved students, the NEPC reports that it’s not necessarily the case...

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The plight of great teachers

Let’s say you are a teacher, and not just any teacher. You are one of those special teachers we hear about in news and policy discussions—the supposedly rare educator who has passionate disciplinary expertise, a tool bag full of teaching strategies and genuine caring for their students, says Nancy Flanagan, an education writer and consultant focusing on teacher leadership, for the Washington Post. You became an educator because you want to make a difference, change the world, raise the bar. You love teaching, finding it endlessly variable and challenging. You plan to spend a long time in the classroom…

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