Joanne Jacobs
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...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 18, 2018
- 2 min
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 16, 2018
- 1 min
He sat in class — and got suspended
While other students walked out of school to protest gun violence, Jacob Shoemaker sat in class alone. The Hilliard Davidson High senior...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 12, 2018
- 3 min
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 8, 2018
- 2 min
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 6, 2018
- 2 min
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 5, 2018
- 2 min
From anger to activism: Is this civics education?
A month after the Parkland, Florida massacre, students across the country plan to walk out of class for 17 minutes on March 14 to honor...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 25, 2018
- 2 min
‘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 23, 2018
- 1 min
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 22, 2018
- 2 min
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 19, 2018
- 2 min
Can we blame video games for violence?
Lonely and miserable, the Florida shooter played video games for as much as 15 hours a day, Paul Gold, a former neighbor, told the Miami...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 13, 2018
- 2 min
Principal pays kids not to fight
At a high-poverty, low-performing K-8 school in Philadelphia, eighth graders don’t get into fights any more. Their principal promised...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 11, 2017
- 2 min
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
- Jun 20, 2017
- 2 min
Through the metal detector to an education
“Every morning, I stand behind the metal detectors, searching bags as students enter the school,” writes Adam Stumacher, director of...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 8, 2017
- 1 min
British teachers try police-style body cameras
British teachers are wearing police-style body cameras to deter and document disruption by their students, reports the BBC. Two schools...
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