Joanne Jacobs
Students — but not teachers — are safer
Students feel safer in school, according to a Indicators of School Crime and Safety 2017, an annual federal report that analyzed 2015-16...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 30, 2018
- 2 min
Don’t ask kids to befriend violent classmates
Parkland shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz at Broward County jail. Photo: Miguel Guttierez/AFP/Getty Images It’s up to adults to protect kids...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 29, 2018
- 2 min
Safety last?
When he brought a knife to San Diego’s Lincoln High School, the student’s special education team decided he wasn’t responsible because it...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 26, 2018
- 2 min
‘Fight for our lives’
If an armed intruder breaks into a classroom in rural Pennsylvania’s Blue Mountain district, he “will face classroom full of students...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 24, 2018
- 1 min
Teamwork, time and the universe
Via Viral Hog: Students in Chihuahua, Mexico demonstrate the traditional dance of the huahuas de puebla, which requires “confidence,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 19, 2018
- 2 min
After jail, back to school
Broward County’s school system has built a prison-to-school pipeline, writes Paul Sperry of RealClearInvestigations. “Thousands of other...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 18, 2018
- 2 min
Already safe at school
School shootings aren’t an epidemic, writes Martin Kaste on NPR. “Schools are safer today than they had been in previous decades,” says...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 12, 2018
- 3 min
Safe at school — but nowhere else
School is a safe haven from the streets, students at Baltimore’s Excel Academy tell Kevin Rector, a Baltimore Sun reporter. Seven...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 8, 2018
- 2 min
Young, passionate — but not wise
The Parkland survivors are experts on how it feels to be terrorized by a gunman. That doesn’t make them experts on what policies would...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 7, 2018
- 2 min
Discipline reform: Did it go too far?
Discipline reform may have contributed to the violence at Douglas High School, writes Erika Sanzi, who blogs on Good School Hunting, on...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 7, 2018
- 1 min
Reaching out to every child
Teachers chart their relationships with students at a high-poverty North Carolina school, reports Lisa Philip on WUNC. Pattillo Middle...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 6, 2018
- 2 min
Hugs and guns to keep kids safe
Pamela Revels “dispenses hugs and smiles” at schools around Auburn, Alabama, reports the New York Times in a story about school resource...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 25, 2018
- 2 min
‘It was never enough to get him arrested’
Parkland, Florida students and teachers are returning to Stoneman Douglas High this week, though not to the freshman building where a...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 23, 2018
- 1 min
Don’t talk about guns — or square-root signs
A Louisiana teenager who joked that the square-root sign looks like a gun has been barred from school and faces an expulsion hearing,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 22, 2018
- 2 min
More guns in school?
An armed sheriff’s deputy waited outside Stoneman Douglas High School for “upwards of four minutes” while a gunman was shooting, said...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 11, 2017
- 2 min
Student privacy vs. teacher safety
Do teachers have a right to know when a student has been charged with a violence crime? “Most states allow law enforcement agencies and...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 4, 2017
- 1 min
Mom won’t be charged for recording device
Criminal charges have been dropped against a mother who sent her child to school with a recording device to document bullying, reports...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 30, 2017
- 2 min
Bullying leads to murder, suicide try
At a Bronx school where a bullied student killed a classmate, a bullied sixth grader tried to hang himself with his sweater, reports...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 22, 2017
- 2 min
Tide turns on Title IX investigations
Last week, California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would have “codified the Obama-era Education Department’s guidance for how...
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