The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. California’s ...

Juvenile review boards have been operating in Connecticut for decades in an effort to keep youth out of the criminal justice system. In the last five years, the state legislature pushed the ...

A core principle of restorative practices is that they are most effective when used before any conflict has occurred.

Part of a series on senior theses from the April 11, 2005, Princeton Weekly Bulletin. Working last summer in the public defender’s office in her hometown of Charleston, S.C., Spencer Compton was ...

This article was produced in partnership with Foreign Policy in Focus. As a society, we fail to humanize perpetrators of violent crime. We fail to separate the person from the act. Both claims are ...

Timote Vaka was running out of second chances. When he struck a member of a rival basketball team in October after he misinterpreted his opponent’s light shoulder bump for something more aggressive, ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Clip of Senator Graham describing the statements of forgiveness that the victims' families gave to the shooter. For many Americans, there is a simple ...

When the student-government president here at City Springs Elementary/Middle School turned into the class clown last school year and began treating teachers disrespectfully, administrators had many ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. With just two ...

Restorative justice is rooted in an empathetic, comprehensive and more solution-based approach to addressing criminal behavior.

Portland Public Schools has been prioritizing restorative justice as its approach to problem behavior, under a plan rolled out just before the COVID-19 pandemic forced school buildings to close during ...

In a recent community circle with my students, I discovered that the majority of them worked 40-plus hours per week over the break, and at least part time during school, to earn money for school ...