Education Aug 23 Assessing whether corporal punishment helps students, or hurts them By PBS News Hour
Nation Apr 29 Column: 12 alternatives to timeouts when kids are at their worst One day we were trying to steer our daughter’s behavior by imposing timeouts and taking toys away and limiting TV time whenever she went astray. And the next, we weren’t. Did she start running roughshod over our house, our feelings… By Wendy Thomas Russell
Nation May 09 Three takes on disciplining your child, from toddler to teen We turned to three experts with different backgrounds and asked them how they would deal with a variety of real-world scenarios. By Jenny Marder
Nation May 05 Navigating the ‘cage match’ of modern parenthood The truth is, there’s little even the most organized people can do to prepare themselves for having children. They can buy all the books, observe friends and relations, review their own memories of childhood. But the distance between those proxy… By Jennifer Senior
Education Apr 18 Michigan students march to end ‘zero tolerance’ approach to school discipline About 150 Michigan students, parents and educators plan to take the 90-mile trip from Detroit to the state’s capital in Lansing Monday through Wednesday to protest schools’ zero-tolerance discipline policies. That may not seem like much of an undertaking –… By Kyla Calvert Mason
Jan 08 Watch Are some U.S. school discipline policies too punitive? The Education and Justice Departments released new guidelines on school discipline, urging schools to ensure that punishments comply with civil rights laws. Hari Sreenivasan gets debate on the recommendations from Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Chester… Continue watching
Jun 26 Early Punishments Can Have Lasting Impact for Some Students A number of studies over the years have linked a child's exposure to the criminal justice system with increased odds of dropping out of school. The NewsHour recently traveled to Texas, a state that is sending thousands of kids to… Continue reading
Jun 22 Watch Early Punishments Can Have Lasting Impact For Some Students Early Punishments Can Have Lasting Impact For Some Students… Continue watching
Oct 11 Watch Principal Works to Improve Failing Inner-city School The last installment in a series looking at an inner-city school in Richmond, Va., tracks "turnaround specialist" Parker Land's efforts to fix Boushall Middle School's troubles with discipline and incentives. Continue watching