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School shootings are horrible — and very rare
Terrifying parents and children is not useful: School massacres are “exceptionally rare” events, writes John Tierney in City Journal....

Joanne Jacobs
May 29, 20222 min read


School shooters don’t just ‘snap’
School shooters don’t just “snap,” journalist Mark Follman, author of Trigger Points: Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in...

Joanne Jacobs
May 27, 20222 min read


The making of a mass murderer
The shooter in the Uvalde, Texas school massacre was “a lonely 18-year-old who was bullied over a childhood speech impediment, suffered...

Joanne Jacobs
May 26, 20222 min read


What to do with angry, unstable students
Photo: Pixabay In A day in the life of school social workers, Hechinger’s Peggy Barmore looks at how Schenectady (New York) schools...

Joanne Jacobs
May 2, 20221 min read
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...

Joanne Jacobs
May 2, 20222 min read
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
Jan 6, 20201 min read


Back to school — nervously
Notebooks, pencils, ruler, bulletproof backpack panel . . . Sales are up for “ballistic protection” for schoolchildren, reports Kevin...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 4, 20181 min read


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
Sep 4, 20182 min read


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 31, 20181 min read


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 28, 20181 min read


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 27, 20181 min read


$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
Aug 26, 20182 min read


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 16, 20181 min read


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
Jul 15, 20181 min read


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 14, 20182 min read


‘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 13, 20182 min read


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 12, 20183 min read


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 11, 20182 min read


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 5, 20181 min read


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 4, 20182 min read
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