Students who have to repeat a grade can cause discipline problems among their classmates, a new study indicates. Researchers looked at nearly 80,000 seventh graders in 334 North Carolina middle ...

DURHAM, N.C. — A new study by researchers at Duke University documented a ripple effect of behavioral problems in schools where students repeated a grade. The research, published online Friday at ...

When Omaha Public Schools added sixth grade to its middle schools, the teachers union began receiving reports of students attacking teachers.One teacher has already resigned because of the ...

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Parents at an Albuquerque middle school are annoyed and disappointed with their administrators. They claim an entire grade is being punished because of a few bad apples.

I’m not here to defend Patrick Milling — never met the ousted 36-year-old Bloomfield middle school vice principal. But something’s certainly awry when the man hired to instill discipline at Carmen ...

Keith Kincaid couldn't help but chuckle Monday when he thought about his childhood and how teachers would scold kids for misbehaving. “It was all about ‘don't do this' and ‘don't do that,'” the ...

IS GREENFIELD'S PBIS WORKING? Six teenagers, laughing and talking (but mostly laughing), stood along the outskirts of an enclosed field Wednesday at Greenfield Middle School. The campus on Pacheco ...

Sarah A. Rainsberger, a Toronto-based tutor who specializes in math, remembers her education school professor's interesting experiment. He asked each member of the class to list the qualities of an ...

WASHINGTON — When Stephanie Gunter accepted a second-grade teaching position at Langley Elementary, she was no novice. By that point, Gunter had been teaching in D.C. Public Schools for six years, and ...

Meet Amy G. Dala. She can be emotional and knows a lot about fear. She’s otherwise known as the amygdala — the part of the brain responsible for the response and memory of emotions, especially fear, ...

Schools with a high number of students who repeat a grade are more likely to have discipline problems in the classrooms, a Duke University study has found. A research team led by Dr Clara Muschkin ...