Last week’s deadly shooting at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, Ca., prompted calls for more metal detectors at schools. Safety experts say that’s the wrong response. There’s a cheaper, more effective approach, but it’s a tough sell.
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A new 67-second ad is the latest in a series of gut-wrenching videos by the school safety advocacy group Sandy Hook Promise. “Back to School Essentials” shows kids dealing with the threat of gun violence in everyday life.
A suspected child abductor found with 11 children and four other adults at a squalid New Mexico compound had trained at least one of the minors to use an assault rifle in preparation for a school shooting, prosecutors said.
On the 19th anniversary of the Columbine school massacre, high-school students nationwide are staying out of school. The Washington Post has found records of more than 200,000 students exposed to school violence in the past 19 years. One student was shot Friday in Ocala, Fl.
After the school shooting in Parkland, Fl., brought much more attention to the school violence issue, Congress is increasing funds for research –although the Trump administration is seeking to reduce the program.
Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox calls a new report on school violence by two advocacy groups “a misinformed and…
Several St. Louis-area school districts are installing locks on classroom doors after the Newtown, Ct., shootings, says the St. Louis…
Some Texas state legislators and pro-gun advocates nationally are arguing that instead of trying to get rid of guns to…
The Philadelphia Inquirer series “Assault on Learning” has won a Casey Medal awarded by the Journalism Center on Children and…
After racial violence in one high school and “flash-mob violence” in another area, Philadelphia School Superintendent Arlene Ackerman is vowing…