Joanne Jacobs
Surrendering Concord's Minutemen
Concord High School in Northern California is under pressure to give up its "Minutemen" mascot, reports Stephanie Magallon for NBC Bay...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 2
- 2 min
'Restorative' backlash: Legislators propose tougher school discipline
Legislators are "moving to make it easier to kick disruptive students out of school" in response to "a pandemic-era surge in school gun...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 18
- 1 min
Seattle parents fight homeless camp near school
Seattle parents protested a homeless camp less than a block from their children's elementary school yesterday, reports Jeremy Harris for...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 30
- 2 min
Unsafe at school
Angry teachers in Newport News, Virginia blame lax discipline for a 6-year-old shooting his first-grade teacher, write Ben Finley and...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 11
- 2 min
Tolerating misbehavior undercuts learning
A six-year-old boy shot and nearly killed his first-grade teacher at a Newport News, Virginia school last week. The teacher was...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 5
- 2 min
Akron teachers threaten strike over school safety
"We as educators are being asked to accept more and more violent language, violent assaults, violent behaviors from our students and we...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 25, 2022
- 2 min
Back in the day, playgrounds were unsafe -- and fun
The first Saturday of each month is National Play Outside Day, writes Don Mathis. He remembers the exciting -- and dangerous --...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 24, 2022
- 2 min
Without phones, school is calmer and students are listening, talking
Banning cell phones transformed a Philadelphia high school, reports Kristen A. Graham in the Inquirer. Students were ignoring teachers --...
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