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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 27, 20181 min read


$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
Aug 26, 20182 min read


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 22, 20182 min read


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 16, 20181 min read


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...

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 15, 20181 min read


A shiny new school fails
San Francisco spent $54 million to build and equip a new STEM-focused middle school to serve low-income black students — and lure...

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 1, 20183 min read


How restorative justice can work
Students talk at the peace table at a San Jose Montessori school Restorative justice can make schools safer, if it’s done well, writes...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 28, 20182 min read


Pushed out for being ‘weird’
The teenage boy, who’s on the autism spectrum, wore a black trench coat every day as a comfort garment. He talked obsessively about video...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 26, 20181 min read


We’re scaring the kids — not helping them
When a parent toured her 5-year-old daughter’s future kindergarten near Boston, she noticed a poem on the board set to the lyrics of ...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 14, 20182 min read


Tackling ‘culture’ — but not tools — of violence
The Trump administration’s school safety commission will examine the “culture of violence,” but not the role of guns, Education Secretary...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 5, 20181 min read


Safety fears encourage homeschooling
School safety fears are pushing parents to consider homeschooling, writes Valerie Richardson in the Washington Times. After a gunman...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 3, 20182 min read


Kicked out for a keychain
An Ed Navigator advisor helped the mother appeal, then persuaded the superintendent to reduce the student’s time in an alternative...

Joanne Jacobs
May 14, 20181 min read
The right to walk home from the bus stop
#childsafety #freerangeparenting

Joanne Jacobs
May 12, 20181 min read


Outing Club can’t go outside: It’s not safe
Penn State students have organized and led wilderness trips for 98 years. Penn State’s Outing Club can’t go outside any more, reports Don...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 23, 20181 min read


Broken PROMISE
Today, the anniversary of the Columbine massacre, students are being urged to walk out of school to protest school shootings, register...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 19, 20183 min read


De Vos: Schools are less safe
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is under pressure to rescind — or to preserve — what’s known as the “Obama-era guidance” on school...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 12, 20183 min read


Teachers get (very small) baseball bats
“It is the last resort,” said Millcreek School District Superintendent William Hall, who called the 16-inch bats primarily “symbolic.”...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 11, 20181 min read


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...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 1, 20181 min read


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 30, 20182 min read


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 29, 20182 min read
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