Joanne Jacobs
Scared of school: 45% favor arming teachers
I try to imagine Miss Lawson, my kindergarten teacher, packing heat. Mrs. Roston? Miss Bletsch? Of course, in my day, schools didn't have...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 13
- 1 min
Second wave of learning loss is coming in ’23-24
Students learned a lot less in remote classes, test scores show. “The achievement loss is far greater than most educators and parents...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 10
- 1 min
States limit ‘active shooter’ drills
“Active shooter drills” terrify students, but do they make them any safer? Photo: Education Week When schools do fire drills, they don’t...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 9
- 3 min
School police: Do they make students safer?
In response to the shooting of 19 children and two adults, Uvalde, Texas school officials want to hire more police officers, writs Robby...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 1
- 1 min
CA school officials must report threats — or not
Photo: Pixabay California school officials would be required to report any “perceived threat” of a mass shooting to law enforcement under...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 1
- 2 min
When does adulthood start?
Here's any idea that will infuriate everyone but might do some good: Let's make 21 the official age of adulthood in America. No buying...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 29
- 2 min
School shootings are horrible — and very rare
Terrifying parents and children is not useful: School massacres are “exceptionally rare” events, writes John Tierney in City Journal....
Joanne Jacobs
- May 26
- 2 min
The making of a mass murderer
The shooter in the Uvalde, Texas school massacre was “a lonely 18-year-old who was bullied over a childhood speech impediment, suffered...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 14
- 1 min
She watched kids play — security was called
Lenore Skenazy was walking by an elementary school in Queens, when she saw kids playing hopscotch, just as she used to do, and paused to...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 2
- 2 min
Unsafe schools drive away teachers
Classroom violence is driving teachers to quit in Oregon’s Salem-Keizer school district, reports Christine Pitawanich for KGW-TV. Despite...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 23, 2018
- 1 min
Has your child ever seen a therapist?
Florida schools are asking for students’ mental health histories on registration forms, reports Julio Ochoa on NPR. Parents worry their...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 7, 2018
- 1 min
The babysitter is a spycam
spycam is the babysitter, reports Ronda Kaysen in the New York Times. Working parents can use an array of security devices to keep tabs...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 5, 2018
- 2 min
Spoiled children
A college education isn’t intended to make people think any more, write Greg Lukianoff, a First Amendent specialist, and Jonathan Haidt,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 4, 2018
- 1 min
Back to school — nervously
Notebooks, pencils, ruler, bulletproof backpack panel . . . Sales are up for “ballistic protection” for schoolchildren, reports Kevin...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 28, 2018
- 1 min
How many school shootings? We don’t know
More than two-thirds of school shootings reported by the U.S. Education Department “never happened,” reports NPR. This spring the U.S....
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 27, 2018
- 1 min
First day at Santa Fe High
School has started again at the Texas high school where 10 students and teachers were killed on May 18, reports Shelby Webb in the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 26, 2018
- 2 min
$1 billion for security: Are kids any safer?
The Texas Education Agency asked the U.S. Education Department whether schools could use a flexible federal grant to pay for guns and...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 22, 2018
- 2 min
Look lively: Big Brother is watching
A Chinese high school installed cameras that monitor students’ facial expressions, reports Don Lee in the Los Angeles Times. Artificial...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 16, 2018
- 1 min
Broward: ‘Promise’ didn’t enable shooter to buy guns
Broward County’s PROMISE program, which diverts misbehaving students from the criminal-justice system, didn’t enable a former student...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 15, 2018
- 1 min
There is no profile of a school shooter
Don’t try to profile potential school shooters warns a new Secret Service report on school safety. It doesn’t work. “These acts of...