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 ...

Re: "Corporal punishment is still a thing in Tennessee? Time to end it for our kids' sake," by David Plazas, Nov. 16. Many are shocked to learn that corporal punishment is still legal and widely ...

It's the start of a new school year and classrooms throughout Illinois could be looking different through new laws going into effect now and in the near future. Whether it be a preschool classroom, ...

It was spring when Joshua Watson, a sixth-grader at Alvarado Intermediate School in Alvarado, Texas, had an unsettling decision to make -- whether to accept a five-day in-school suspension or be ...

HEIDELBERG, Miss. (WDAM/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - A third grade student's arm was broken by corporal punishment from a school staff member, a paddling, that the child's mother gave permission for. 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 ...

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 student's parent had filed a complaint alleging child abuse. A Scott City school administrator's paddling of a student on Nov. 11 followed school policy, Scott City school board members ...

MONTICELLO, Ga. -- A mother of two is accusing school administrators of abusing her five-year-old son after they used a paddle to discipline him on Wednesday. Shana Marie Perez, posted video on her ...

NEW ORLEANS - As a high-school student in the mid-1960s, Greg Aymond occasionally saw an angry teacher cuff a student. It never happened to him, nor does the memory of faculty discipline in those days ...

According to a report by the New Orleans Lens, a Louisiana high school football assistant coach at Sarah Towles Reed stepped down last week week following allegations of a paddling incident. Per the ...