Joanne Jacobs
Unsafe schools drive away teachers
Classroom violence is driving teachers to quit in Oregon’s Salem-Keizer school district, reports Christine Pitawanich for KGW-TV. Despite...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 6, 20201 min
Emotionally Disturbed Students At School
Is special education law creating dangerous conditions in American schools? In an effort to ensure that schools are “inclusive,” IDEA...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 4, 20181 min
Back to school — nervously
Notebooks, pencils, ruler, bulletproof backpack panel . . . Sales are up for “ballistic protection” for schoolchildren, reports Kevin...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 4, 20182 min
New teen fiction genre: School shootings
Lilia Martinez, 15, a student in Michigan “estimates that of the 28 books she read over the last school year, both for pleasure and...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 31, 20181 min
Innocent till proven guilty returns to campus
The Education Department is “preparing new policies on campus sexual misconduct hat would bolster the rights of students accused of...
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 28, 20181 min
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....
Joanne Jacobs
Aug 27, 20181 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, 20182 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, 20181 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, 20181 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, 20182 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, 20182 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, 20183 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, 20182 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, 20181 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, 20182 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, 20182 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, 20181 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, 20181 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, 20183 min
Broken PROMISE
Today, the anniversary of the Columbine massacre, students are being urged to walk out of school to protest school shootings, register...
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