This week’s episode of This American Life tells stories of how schools handle misbehaving kids.

An article by Richard Epstein in the Fall 2014 issue of Education Next, “Civil Rights Gone Haywire,” looks at how the federal government came to be involved in school discipline policies.

An article in the Winter 2014 issue of Education Next, “The Softer Side of ‘No Excuses’,” looks at how things work at KIPP schools, which use disciplinary policies that are sometimes misunderstood.

-Education Next