The practice of striking students in public schools has been banned in most states, but some still use corporal punishment as a form of discipline. Corporal punishment uses physical force to cause a ...

Southern states contribute heavily to national trends of disproportionately high rates of discipline for black students in public schools, a new study found. Fifty-five percent of the 1.2 million ...

To paddle or not to paddle, that was the question the Marion County School Board debated Thursday during a review of the 2010-11 Student Code of Conduct. After a long debate, it appears corporal ...

Could it be that we are ready to look again at discipline in schools, at what has been lost as well as gained since we banned the paddle? When I wrote about corporal punishment last week, I figured ...

“Discipline has to be part of the whole building of conscience so children will learn to care if they do something that can harm somebody else.” We’re more sensitive to children’s emotional needs, ...