Joanne Jacobs
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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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...
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...
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...
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...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 14, 2018
- 2 min
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 13, 2018
- 2 min
‘Teachers feel threatened but aren’t backed up’
Gang graffiti on a fence in suburban Long Island, where police blame MS-13 for 30 murders in the last two years. Photo: Sarah...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 12, 2018
- 3 min
Lax discipline, bullying, chaos and death
A “once safe and supportive” New York City school “fell into chaos as new administrators implemented a supposedly more positive approach...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 11, 2018
- 2 min
Why are kids killing themselves?
The number of teens “hospitalized for thinking about or attempting suicide doubled in less than a decade,” according to a recent study....
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 5, 2018
- 1 min
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 4, 2018
- 2 min
Columbine copycats
The Columbine killers have “inspired” a wave of teen-age boys and young men to attack schools, colleges and other easy targets, reports...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 3, 2018
- 2 min
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
- May 21, 2018
- 1 min
School Shootings–A Positive Trend?
What do the data tell us? Now, I’m not exactly known for being a Pollyanna, but I am willing to admit when things are not, in fact,...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 5, 2018
- 1 min
What if kids walked out for better schools?
What if kids walked out demanding better schools? Erika Sanzi imagines demands for school quality and protests of...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 19, 2018
- 3 min
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 7, 2018
- 1 min
Remembering the class of ’18 at Douglas High
The New York Times has a touching story about the yearbook staff at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which faced the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 1, 2018
- 1 min
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
- 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...
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