Impairing Education American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch Aug. 11, 2009 62 pages The Gist: It seems like a scene from Oliver Twist — a young pupil being beaten by a 300-lb man wielding ...

Even after its banning, corporal punishment is still being used in some schools and for a new generation of teachers they ...

When news broke recently that a 6-year-old student was beaten with a wooden paddle by her school principal in Florida, many people likely had to double check that it wasn’t a story from the 1950s. In ...

Some Georgia school districts still allow corporal punishment, including paddling. Here's what state law and local policies say.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Children's health experts have called for corporal punishment to be "abolished." So why is it still legal in many states? (Getty ...

A school district in southwest Missouri adopted an opt-in policy this school year allowing corporal punishment of students “only in reasonable form” and when “all other alternative means of discipline ...

Corporal punishment is viewed as more acceptable and effective when called spanking, according to a new study. Parents and nonparents alike judged identical acts of a child's misbehavior and the ...

Spanking and other forms of corporal punishment of children are still common in the US and worldwide, despite bans in 24 countries. Spanking has declined in the U.S. since 1975 but nearly 80 percent ...

Corporal punishment in schools harms children and damages their education. The practice almost always causes immediate pain, and can result in lasting physical injury. It humiliates and degrades ...

The indictment of Vikings running back Adrian Peterson for allegedly using a wooden "switch" to punish his 4-year-old son has put a spotlight on corporal punishment. Though on the downswing in the ...