Gain perspective on restorative justice in U.S. schools through this comprehensive review of the literature.
WestEd’s School Climate and Wellness Partnership helps schools foster safe and supportive environments. Learn how the partnership helped spark a student-led effort to implement restorative justice practices in Louisiana’s largest school district.
WestEd’s Justice & Prevention Research Center conducts high-quality research to help guide decision-making to address challenges of crime, violence, injustice, and other societal problems. The…
The brief describes the need and rationale for expanding the use of restorative practices in contexts outside of the classroom, including IEP/504 meetings, staff meetings, committee meetings, and online spaces.
In this brief, we investigate whether increasing student exposure to restorative practices could help reduce racial discipline and achievement gaps, drawing from a large sample of secondary students who completed the California Healthy Kids Survey between the 2013/14 and 2018/19 school years.
Dr. Carolyn Turpin-Petrosino, one of the world’s leading experts on hate crimes, discusses the nation’s history of anti-Asian bias and violence and offers suggestions for combatting it.