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Key Trends

• Americans Are Still Spanking Their Kids. A New Study Shows How Harmful That Is, Washington Post, April 12, 2021

• Kids Keep Getting Hit at School, Even Where Corporal Punishment is Banned, The74million.org, May 19, 2021

• Where Lynching Terrorized Black Americans, Corporal Punishment In Schools Lives On, Huffington Post, July 24, 2020

• Nearly 100,000 K-12 Students Still Spanked or Paddled at School, Data Show, Education Week, May 14, 2018

• Corporal Punishment and Preschoolers: What New Federal Data Show, Education Week, May 11, 2018

• Should Teachers Use Corporal Punishment On Students?, HBO/Vice News, October 9, 2017

• Corporal Punishment Use Found in Schools in 21 States, Education Week, August 23, 2016

• Assessing Whether Corporal Punishment Helps Students or Hurts Them, PBS Newshour, August 23, 2016

• Where Teachers Are Still Allowed to Spank Students: Corporal Punishment is Legal in 19 States, The Atlantic, December 14, 2015

• 19 States Still Allow Corporal Punishment in School, Washington Post, Sept 18, 2014

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In the News

• American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Calls for End to Corporal Punishment in Schools, August 2023

• Colorado Advocates Want to Send Schools A Message: It’s Never OK to Hit A Kid, Chalkbeat, March 2023

• Biden Administration to Governors, School Chiefs: Stop Using Corporal Punishment in Schools, USNews, March 24, 2023

• More Than 1,600 Corporal Punishment Cases Substantiated in New York Public Schools in Recent Years, Times-Union, September 24, 2022

• Cassville Students Plan to Protest District's 'Demeaning' Return to Spanking, Corporal Punishment, Springfield News-Leader, August 29, 2022

• Missouri School District Reinstates Spanking Students as ‘Last Resort’, The Gurdiann, August 25, 2022

• Missouri School District Reinstates Spanking as Punishment, USA Today, August 25, 2021

• Corporal Punishment in North Carolina Schools: A Structural Racism Success Story That’s Not Yet Complete, North Carolina Policy Watch, June 23, 2020

• Though Some Legislators Say Spanking Has Its Place, North Carolina House Votes to Ban Corporal Punishment in Schools, The News and Observer, March 27, 2019

• Special Report: Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child? Corporal Punishment in Mississippi Schools, WJTV12 (Jackson, MS), February 20, 2019

• Middle Tennessee Mom Says Corporal Punishment Went Too Far; Left Bruises, Welts, Fox 17 News, Nashville, January 14, 2019

• What Happens When A Country Bans Spanking?, National Public Radio, October 25, 2018

• Mississippi School District Votes to Ban Corporal Punishment, Bucking Statewide Trend, Think Progress, January 29, 2018

• Corporal Punishment Removed from Local Policy, Midland Reporter-Telegram, November 13, 2017

 

Major Reports

• Cruel Schools, Lawyers for Good Government, April 2022

• Twin Differences in Harsh Parenting Predict Youth’s Antisocial Behavior, Psychological Science, February 2021

• Historic Lynching and Corporal Punishment in Contemporary Southern Schools, Social Problems, February 2021  

• Ending Corporal Punishment of Preschool-age Children, The Brookings Institution, October 13, 2020

• The Striking Outlier: The Persistent, Painful, and Problematic Practice of Corporal Punishment in Schools, The Center for Civil Rights Remedies and the Southern Poverty Law Center, June 2019

• Corporal Punishment Bans and Physical Fighting in Adolescents, BMJ Open, October 16, 2018

• Schools, Black Children, and Corporal Punishment, Brookings, January 14, 2016

 

Policy Statements

• American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement on "Corporal Punishment in Schools," August 2023

• Joint Letter in Opposition to Corporal Punishment, The Education Trust, National Women's Law Center, March 22, 2023

• American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Opposes Corporal Punishment, Draws on Recent Evidence, November 5, 2018

• Effective Discipline to Raise Healthy Children, American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement, Pediatrics, February 1, 2019​

• Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools: Prevalence, Disparities in Use, and Status in State and Federal Policy, National Library of Medicine, 2016