Disruptive classroom behavior or failing to meet reasonable behavioral expectations set forth by instructors have the potential to harm the learning environment for other students and to create unsafe ...

Standing before the Jefferson Parish school board last year, Sandra Hauer said she had come to discuss an urgent matter: Student misbehavior. Hauer, president of the Jefferson Federation of Teachers, ...

Educators don’t need another report telling them that classroom behavior is worsening. They’ve told us themselves again, and again, and again. Last winter, the EdWeek Research Center conducted a ...

Educators today are trying to manage a new wave of student behavior, and it’s proving to be one of the toughest parts of their job. Educators are facing an unprecedented wave of behavioral challenges ...

DOVER, Del. - Public education may be approaching a tipping point as student behavioral issues that disrupt learning and compromise safety are taking a toll on teachers. A new survey reveals the ...

The landscape of K-12 classroom management is fraught with various challenges. Educators encounter difficulties in maintaining order, addressing diverse classroom learning needs, and fostering a ...

Next year. Whenever I talk to new teachers, whether informally or within a teacher education course that I instruct, there is consistent talk of the changes they will make “next year.” Many first-year ...

Teachers say that student misconduct in school, including showing disrespect to teachers, is disrupting learning.

This school year, students nationwide have been filmed swearing at teachers, flipping over desks, and committing physical violence. Poor behavior in schools is not new, but educators’ testimony and ...

A 6-year-old in Leila Lubin’s classroom wouldn’t budge from his seat. The rest of his peers had filed off to their enrichment classes but he refused to move. He wasn’t done with his work and he didn’t ...

Debate, disagreement, and discomfort have a productive role to play in the process of learning, and our students generally share our faculty’s sense that classrooms should be a site of vigorous and ...

Yet little rigorous evidence exists on whether behavior management can serve as a lever for academic improvement. We evaluate a program that shifts responsibility for establishing behavioral norms and ...