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When the Los Angeles Unified school board voted in May 2013 to ban the practice of suspending students for “willful defiance,” the blogosphere roiled with outrage. “Moron” was one of the mildest words used to attack school board president Monica Garcia...

Summer of reading tasty task for Cocalico students Recent graduate Rebecca Voler, left, watches as classmate Kayla Logar cuts puff pastries withCindy Diehl, right. Diehl is the mother of music teacher Kristen Diehl, who led a book clubdiscussion of...

Meet this year's best and brightest high school students. The class of 2015, our 21st, is full of Olympic-caliber athletes, musicians, quiz bowlers and scientists. There's rarely a B on the transcripts of these students — in not just this, their senior...

SLJ‘s August 2016 Popular Picks feature some great titles that your kids and teens will be clamoring for. This month, check out the latest from Nicola Yoon; Dan Santat’s newest early reader, part of Mo Willems’s “Elephant and Piggie Like Reading” series...

Ninth grade was nothing like what Darrius Jones expected. Jones imagined that with high school would come more independence. Instead, he felt like he was being treated like a kid. “You had to sit a certain way,” he recalls. “You couldn’t lean, or have...