Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This article was originally published in Missouri Independent. Early on in his administrative career, longtime Missouri educator ...

A young mother of two is accusing school administrators of abusing her five-year-old son in their attempts to paddle him on Wednesday. The mother, Shana Marie Perez, posted video on her Facebook page ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The leader of a church-run school in Orlando was called into a fourth-grade classroom where more than a dozen children were ...

The Rapides Parish School Board will further discuss reinstating corporal punishment later this month. Board member Linda Burgess proposed the motion, aiming to reduce suspensions and expulsions. The ...

Did you see the video of a high school basketball coach whipping a player that went viral recently and spawned a mass of outraged viewers? Murrah High School’s Marlon Dorsey admitted to “paddling” his ...

Students in more than half of Louisiana’s public school districts will still be subject to paddling and spanking in school for misbehavior after the state House on Monday rejected a proposal to ban ...

While Corporal punishment has been banned in most states in the U.S. since the mid-1990s, a number still allow it in schools, predominantly those in the Southeast. In some states, while inflicting ...

Corporal punishment is associated with unintended negative consequences. These include higher rates of mental health problems, more negative parent-child relationships, lower cognitive ability, lower ...

Colorado could be on the brink of doing something nearly two dozen states have yet to do: outlaw corporal punishment in schools. “I thought this was already done. I did not realize this was still a ...

Some Georgia school districts still allow corporal punishment, including paddling. Here's what state law and local policies ...

On June 16, Gov. John Bel Edwards signed House Bill 79, which bans Louisiana school districts from paddling students with disabilities. More than 100,000 students in Louisiana’s public schools have ...