New research from Leeds Associate Professor Stephen Billings and coauthors from Harvard鈥檚 Kennedy School finds that students attending stricter middle schools are more likely to end up incarcerated later in life. Their paper estimates the net impact of school discipline on student achievement, educational attainment and adult criminal activity. The negative impacts are most substantial for males and minorities.
According to Billings, 鈥淪chool suspensions are not an effective policy to handle misbehavior among kids in the long-run even if it may provide immediate relief for disruptive kids in the classroom. We need other policies that better assist struggling kids.鈥�
When Will Singles鈥櫶鼶ay Find Its Place in the US?
With 25% of millennials projected to never marry, independence is becoming profitable. It鈥檚 time that U.S. businesses adapt to this growing trend, according to Leeds Professor Peter McGraw.
CU Boulder Is Named a Top 50 Ignition School
Fast Company and Inc. released their inaugural list of institutions that impact society through innovation and entrepreneurship. How is the Leeds School of Business igniting some of that impact?