Thursday marks a new chance for a better life for graduates of the Restorative Justice Community Courts in North Lawndale, as 48 young adults graduated during the program's fourth ceremony. The ...

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 ...

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Maisha T. Winn is the daughter of African American studies scholar James Fisher, who taught at UC Davis from 1969 to 1974. With a father working at a university, she fondly remembers trips she and her ...

Justice systems exist to respond to rule violations, yet violence does far more than break rules. It disrupts meaning, fractures identity, and weakens the sense of safety that allows individuals and ...

Instead of being kicked out for fighting, stealing, talking back, or other disruptive behavior, public school students in San Francisco are being asked to listen to each other, write letters of ...

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What is restorative justice?: How an inside-out class rewrote tragedy"Hamlet" has endured the ages, embodying timeless themes of the human condition. But what if its tragic ending — with every ...