Studies have made it clear: Black college students are more likely to observe and experience overt racism and experience microaggressions that communicate that they are intellectually inferior or ...

Sixth grade teacher Vicki Rotker leads a “community circle” at Kingsview Middle School in Germantown, Maryland. The school is part of the Montgomery County district, which is introducing restorative ...

CHARLESTON — On Nov. 17 starting at 5:30 pm, West Virginians across the state will simultaneously gather in libraries, churches, community centers, and on college campuses for community-building ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Late last year, restorative justice organization Let’s Circle Up gathered community ...

One of the most proven alternative approaches to addressing crime is to create a supportive culture in educational settings. This approach—restorative justice—is already in place in Oakland. Readers ...

Open, vulnerable, listening and connection. These are the words that come to mind when senior Sophia Christodoulou, co-president of The Petey Greene Program at Tufts, thinks of a restorative practice ...

When it was time to return to school in person for her junior year, Kimberly Higareda was resistant. She had gotten used to being at home, multitasking while attending her Zoom classes and having time ...

A change has come to my classroom, and I didn’t even know it. While I’ve been busy teaching, California passed Senate Bill 274 expanding the prohibition of suspensions for low-level defiance behaviors ...

Don Carney knew when he got the word from Marin County Superior Court Judge Beverly Wood that a big test was on the horizon. “Everyone would like to give restorative justice a chance here,” Wood wrote ...

The skirmish last fall began on a Montgomery County school bus. Someone — no one is sure who — tossed a water bottle from the back of the bus, smacking a sixth-grader sitting near the front. The next ...

As the prime sponsor of most of Colorado’s restorative justice legislation, I thank Carol McKinley for her Dec. 20 article in The Denver Gazette. She accurately highlighted the astounding 1% ...

The University of Iowa Undergraduate Student Government passed a resolution Tuesday to support the university’s Restorative Justice Program with over $30,000. The resolution outlined the use of ...