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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
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Has your child ever seen a therapist?
Florida schools are asking for students’ mental health histories on registration forms, reports Julio Ochoa on NPR. Parents worry their...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 23, 20181 min read
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The babysitter is a spycam
spycam is the babysitter, reports Ronda Kaysen in the New York Times. Working parents can use an array of security devices to keep tabs...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 7, 20181 min read
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Spoiled children
A college education isn’t intended to make people think any more, write Greg Lukianoff, a First Amendent specialist, and Jonathan Haidt,...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 5, 20182 min read
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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
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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
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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
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$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
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Look lively: Big Brother is watching
A Chinese high school installed cameras that monitor students’ facial expressions, reports Don Lee in the Los Angeles Times. Artificial...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 22, 20182 min read
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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
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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
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A shiny new school fails
San Francisco spent $54 million to build and equip a new STEM-focused middle school to serve low-income black students — and lure...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 1, 20183 min read
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How restorative justice can work
Students talk at the peace table at a San Jose Montessori school Restorative justice can make schools safer, if it’s done well, writes...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 28, 20182 min read
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Pushed out for being ‘weird’
The teenage boy, who’s on the autism spectrum, wore a black trench coat every day as a comfort garment. He talked obsessively about video...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 26, 20181 min read
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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
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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
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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
Jun 3, 20182 min read
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Kicked out for a keychain
An Ed Navigator advisor helped the mother appeal, then persuaded the superintendent to reduce the student’s time in an alternative...
Joanne Jacobs
May 14, 20181 min read
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The right to walk home from the bus stop
#childsafety #freerangeparenting
Joanne Jacobs
May 12, 20181 min read
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Outing Club can’t go outside: It’s not safe
Penn State students have organized and led wilderness trips for 98 years. Penn State’s Outing Club can’t go outside any more, reports Don...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 23, 20181 min read
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