top of page


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
0 comments


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
0 comments


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
0 comments


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
0 comments


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
0 comments


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
0 comments


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
0 comments


‘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 26, 20182 min read
0 comments
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 24, 20181 min read
0 comments


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 19, 20182 min read
0 comments


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 18, 20182 min read
0 comments


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 12, 20183 min read
0 comments


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 8, 20182 min read
0 comments


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, 20182 min read
0 comments


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 7, 20181 min read
0 comments


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
Mar 6, 20182 min read
0 comments


‘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 25, 20182 min read
0 comments


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 23, 20181 min read
0 comments


School arms race
#guns #safety #teachers

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 23, 20181 min read
0 comments


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
Feb 22, 20182 min read
0 comments
bottom of page