KANSAS CITY, Mo. — This weekend, a Kansas City nonprofit will host a workshop for parents, predominately living in the area, on how to raise children using nonviolent forms of discipline. The World ...

Students with disabilities face corporal punishment in public schools at disproportionately high rates, says a report released Aug. 10 by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Human Rights ...

In Alabama, it's still legal for parents, and in some cases schools, to physically use corporal punishment. While many states have banned the practice in classrooms, Alabama law allows corporal ...

Every day, approximately 600 students across the U.S. are physically punished at school — hit with wooden paddles or struck by objects by adults charged with their education and care. While corporal ...

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 ...

Critics argued that corporal punishment has proved ineffective in putting pupils in check. In most cases, it resulted in injuries and avoidable deaths. They reckoned that beyond arrests, issuance of ...

Cohen is the author of the new book Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's 50-Year Battle for a More Unjust America Two Texas mothers set off a firestorm recently when they complained that a male ...

Does your school district or state permit the use of corporal punishment? Here are ten steps you can take against corporal punishment. 1. Write to your Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) and ask for a ...

"It's sickening to see somebody do that to their child." At a news conference Thursday, Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch admitted he found the punishment meted out in the video disturbing as well, ...

When news broke recently that a 6-year-old student was beaten with a wooden paddle by her school principal in Florida, many people likely had to double check that it wasn’t a story from the 1950s. In ...

CASSVILLE, Mo. – KOLR 10 Investigates is following up on a story out of Cassville that made national headlines last year when the superintendent brought corporal punishment back to the school district ...