For Chicagoans of a certain vintage who attended Catholic schools in the distant past, this new law might sound like heresy: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker earlier this month signed a ban on corporal ...

A 2025 study finds corporal punishment remains widespread in Dibrugarh, Assam, schools despite the Right to Education Act ban.

For years, the so-called “cultural normativeness hypothesis” cast a shadow over efforts to ban corporal punishment worldwide. It suggested that in countries where disciplining children through ...

Critics argued that corporal punishment has proved ineffective in putting pupils in check. In most cases, it resulted in injuries and avoidable deaths. They reckoned that beyond arrests, issuance of ...

These parents and the author of Spare the Child: Ending Childhood Corporal Punishment share their thoughts about the evolving attitudes and approaches to childhood discipline.

Alex Young, left, a college student from Louisville and vocal opponent of corporal punishment, posed with Rep. Steven Riley, a retired educator and Republican from Glasgow, who has tried a number of ...

Two licks with a wooden paddle in the principal’s office was the price 11-year-old Kaley Zacher of Dexter, Georgia, paid for ignoring warnings about falling behind in her school work. Rules are rules, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Saskatoon author and academic Ailsa Watkinson with her new book Spare the Child: Ending Childhood Corporal Punishment (University ...