Student behavior problems continue to plague schools, and educators say they’ve actually grown more serious, according to a recent survey by the EdWeek Research Center. Nearly half of teachers, school ...

SAN MATEO, Calif. — School had been in session at Lead Elementary for less than an hour, but already Andrea Quinn had paused teaching her first graders nearly 20 times. First, there was the child who ...

Springfield teachers and principals logged 17,759 student discipline incidents during the 2022-23 year, an increase of about 30 percent — 4,154 incidents — compared to the prior year. Each incident ...

Educators are being asked to take on more or larger classes alongside the Herculean challenges of lost instructional time and a national emergency in child and adolescent mental health. Credit: Jackie ...

We asked teachers about how students are doing at their school. Overall, many teachers hold negative views about students’ academic performance and behavior. Teachers in elementary, middle and high ...

Assessing student learning effectively is often complicated by relying on ambiguous proxies such as grades, quiz scores, or assumptions about students' internal states, such as what they feel, think, ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Images of school fights at a Florida high school are so frequent that there's a social media page dedicated to them. It's the kind of extreme student behavior teachers describe as ...

Every day, De'sean Davis takes a break from his second-grade class at Nellie Stone Johnson Elementary to spend 15 minutes burning off some extra energy, running around or playing catch in the school's ...

Education leaders are trying different approaches to curb what elementary teachers say is a trend of increasingly severe behavior problems in their classrooms.