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‘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
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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


‘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


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


School arms race
#guns #safety #teachers

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 23, 20181 min read


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


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 11, 20172 min read


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
Dec 4, 20171 min read


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 30, 20172 min read


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...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 22, 20172 min read


Revoke federal letter on suspensions, race
School safety is more important than racial balance in suspensions, argues Jason L. Riley in the Wall Street Journal. Education Secretary...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 14, 20172 min read


How campus rape policy went wrong
Pressured by the federal government and beliefs about “rape culture,” colleges have tried to police their students’ sex lives. Emily...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 13, 20173 min read


DeVos: Feds will revise sex assault policy
Federal directives on campus sexual assault by a “weaponized” Office of Civil Rights have failed students, said Education Secretary Betsy...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 7, 20172 min read
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