The school setting, which parents, caregivers and students hope to be one of safety, continues to evoke fear in many. With school shootings becoming more frequent each year, children have the added ...

Children's health experts have called for corporal punishment to be "abolished." So why is it still legal in many states? (Getty Images) (Tomwang112 via Getty Images) When children head to school each ...

Until the late 1980s, it was common for students to be spanked when they misbehaved in school. This controversial method of discipline is known as corporal punishment. Corporal punishment is when a ...

Presently, 19 states still allow corporal punishment. The United States Supreme Court decision in 1977 said that “corporal punishment was not cruel and unusual punishment and is, thus, allowed in ...

Colorado could be on the brink of doing something nearly two dozen states have yet to do: outlaw corporal punishment in schools. “I thought this was already done. I did not realize this was still a ...

Today, corporal punishment is still legal in 19 states. That’s unacceptable. Schools should be safe and supportive environments for students, where they can learn and thrive. In 1977, the U.S. Supreme ...

Kirrily Pells and the Young Lives project receives funding from UNICEF Office of Research. Young Lives is core-funded from 2001 to 2017 by UK aid from the Department of International Development (DFID ...

TALLAHASSEE — A proposal that would require parents to “opt-in” for students to receive corporal punishment in schools got initial approval Wednesday from a House panel, with some of the bill’s ...

Corporal punishment in schools is legal in Texas. It’s also more common than you think. In the most recent year for which data is available, more than 1,000 Texas schools used corporal punishment as a ...