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    Scared of school: 45% favor arming teachers
    Joanne Jacobs
    • 6 days ago
    • 1 min

    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...
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    Second wave of learning loss is coming in ’23-24
    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...
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    States limit ‘active shooter’ drills
    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...
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    School police: Do they make students safer?
    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...
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    CA school officials must report threats — or not
    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...
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    When does adulthood start?
    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...
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    School shootings are horrible — and very rare
    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....
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    The making of a mass murderer
    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...
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    She watched kids play — security was called
    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...
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    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...
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    Has your child ever seen a therapist?
    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...
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    The babysitter is a spycam
    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...
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    Spoiled children
    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,...
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    Back to school — nervously
    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...
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    How many school shootings? We don’t know
    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....
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    First day at Santa Fe High
    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...
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    $1 billion for security: Are kids any safer?
    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...
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    Look lively: Big Brother is watching
    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...
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    Broward: ‘Promise’ didn’t enable shooter to buy guns
    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...
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    There is no profile of a school shooter
    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...
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