Welcome to today’s online chat about the behavior and discipline of prekindergarten children. This is a hot topic in education circles and one with implications that go far beyond the preschool years.

As most schools offered a combination of online and in-person instruction in the 2020-21 school year, Black students and students with disabilities continued to be disproportionately disciplined. That ...

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Preschool teachers accused of making children stand naked in a closet in a Head Start classroom in East St. Louis and of throwing a child against a cabinet in St. Louis County have raised the question ...

Your donation today will help MinnPost continue to report on the news you need. Advocates working to address school discipline disparities in Minnesota want to ban the use of suspensions for the state ...

One morning, children were choosing markers to write their names with. Like many preschool classrooms, we work with a shared ...

I spend time each month providing consultation to preschools to help them understand the root cause of the challenging behaviors in their classrooms and establish developmentally appropriate, ...

Preschool teachers look for disruptive behavior where they expect it — and they expect it most from black boys, new research from the Yale Child Study Center suggests. The study’s findings are ...

Young children who display disruptive behavior reduce those behaviors when their teacher spends extra time playing individually with them, according to a new University of Virginia study published in ...

A state investigation has revealed that a former Buckhead preschool teacher did not abuse children in its program, but the school was still fined $299 because she inappropriately disciplined them.