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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


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


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
Mar 5, 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


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 19, 20182 min read


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
Feb 13, 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


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
Jun 21, 20172 min read


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...

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 8, 20171 min read
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