Deeply disturbing photos of an upstate classroom’s wooden “time-out’’ box with bare walls and a padded floor surfaced on social media last week, sparking a firestorm of outrage. The ominous-looking ...

In public schools across New York, children with disabilities are frequently confined alone in closet-like “time out rooms,” sometimes multiple times a day or for hours at a time. The practice is ...

What is time-out? Parents disagree. In a recent study, Andrew Riley and colleagues surveyed over 400 parents of one- to 10-year-olds and found that more than three quarters of them used time-out—but ...