After giving a midterm examination last year, I briefly considered quitting my lifelong job as a teacher. The stimulus was the declaration during the test by a student -- incensed at my “unfair” ...

Brittany Krzak said she was at her wit's end by the time she showed up to a Lorain City School District board of education meeting in March. Her daughter's kindergarten classroom at Toni Morrison ...

School had been in session at Lead Elementary for less than an hour, but already Andrea Quinn had paused teaching her first graders nearly 20 times, she told The Hechinger Report. First, there was the ...

What can I do when a student keeps misbehaving even after they repeatedly promise to improve? It’s not easy for students to change ingrained habits. Here’s something I wrote related to the topic for ...

About 1 in 4 elementary students in the United States reports being bullied at least once during a given school year. Children who are frequently bullied are more likely to struggle in school, ...

Q: Our son is a rising second-grader at a private school. Last year, his behavior was often disruptive and sometimes even downright defiant — problems his first grade teacher did not have with him. At ...

Misbehavior, however, may also be due to factors arising from the teacher themselves. In some cases, teachers aren’t that they are indirectly a cause of the poor classroom behavior, making it clear ...