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By Donna St. George, Tuesday, January 28Maryland education leaders approved the most sweeping changes in decades to state discipline policies Tuesday morning, culminating a four-year effort intended to reform approaches to student punishment, increase time in school and end racial disparities in suspensions.The Maryland State Board of Education’s action…

By Gretchen DykstraGretchen DykstraThose who toil in the fields of communications know we often graze in the back pastures, far from the main barn, whistled for at the end of day. But we know that every organization and every program needs communications from morning till…

Lekia Hill, lead organizer in Syracuse for the Alliance for Quality Education, asks UCLA expert Dan Losen a question at a Sept. 30 board session. Hill was named one of 50 members of the district's new Code of Conduct Task Force. Photo: Gary WaltsBy Paul…

By Morris Arvoy Albie Sachs, an internationally known human rights activist and top judge in South Africa, suffered solitary confinement and exile and survived a bomb attack by South African security agents during the arduous fight to end apartheid. Sachs, 78, went on to help…

The European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) has launched the Asylum Information Database (AIDA) website, mapping asylum procedures, reception conditions and detention in 14 EU countries. The website is part of a project funded by EPIM and carried out in partnership with the Hungarian Helsinki Committee,…

Henninger High School hall monitor Shirley Doesey during a change of classes. Teachers say behavior is worse in city schools this year and the district isn't doing enough about it. Meanwhile, study says district is suspending too many kids, and more black and Latino kids…

Watch Central Park Five Trailer on PBS. See more from Central Park Five. THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE, a new film from award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns, tells the story of the five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of raping a white…

SAOIRSE BRADYThu, Feb 07, 2013Opinion: With a national unemployment rate of 14.6 per cent - the fourth highest in the EU - it is no surprise that more people are turning to the social welfare system for basic assistance.It is also unsurprising that, with little or…

The New York Civil Liberties Union is an Atlantic grantee through the Reconciliation & Human Rights programme in the United States.January 8, 2013 —  The NYPD has a pattern and practice of illegally stopping innocent people in public areas outside thousands of private apartment buildings in…

By Tim WalkerStudents, educators, parents, and community leaders have launched a national call for a moratorium on out-of-school suspensions and for schools to adopt more constructive disciplinary policies that benefit students, classrooms and communities.The Solutions Not Suspensions initiative, announced last Tuesday at an event led by the Dignity…