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From inner-city classrooms to wealthy boarding schools the mindfulness juggernaut has hit education. A recent Atlantic article shows that despite its “inherent nebulousness” as a concept and little evidence that mindfulness impacts academic success,...

Around the world, girls and women are discriminated against, shamed, or even criminalised for how they look and dress. They are constantly being reminded that what they wear and how they choose to look is too “distracting”, “revealing”, or “inappropriate...

One of the Obama administration’s most ambitious school reform initiatives was its dramatic increase in funding for so-called School Improvement Grants (SIGs) aimed at turning around the nation’s worst performing schools. Under the 2009 economic stimulus...

[PRESS RELEASE] For Immediate Release: June 19, 2015 State Board of Education Approves Public Comment Period for Policy on the Use of Seclusion and Restraint in Schools JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Board of Education voted Friday(June 19) to begin...

The Mississippi Board of Education voted Friday to begin the public comment period on a policy for the use of seclusion and restraint in schools. The public comment period will last 30 days. At the Board’s April meeting, the Office of School Performance...