This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Research consistently finds a simple trend: where there are more guns, there are more deaths. That’s true everywhere in the world, and it’s true in the classroom, too. A cross-national study…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. John Cornyn of Texas, the number-two Republican in the Senate, and Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy, the chamber’s leading proponent of gun regulation, have a bill to address deficiencies in the background-check system.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A Florida culinary teacher who sheltered 65 students in her classroom during last week’s mass shooting gave a simple, but compelling, explanation for why faculty shouldn’t be armed and expected to fire…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It was my first time on a jury. I was 31, balancing two jobs while going to graduate school. It was 2009, New Orleans was infested with crime, and I…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Counselors, time, diverse classroom libraries, money — these are some of many things American teachers say they need in their schools instead of guns. The pleas are coming via a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Just a few years ago, Syria Street, a main thoroughfare in the city of Tripoli in northern Lebanon, was notorious as the demarcation line between two warring neighborhoods — a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. President Donald Trump suggested on Wednesday that arming teachers and school staff members could provide security against events like the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last week, in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Students in Florida and Maryland walked out of their schools en masse February 21st to protest gun violence in what could be a preview of nationwide demonstrations planned for next month.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida last week joined a grim list of murderous US school shootings, alongside Sandy Hook elementary school and Columbine high school. But what…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Columbine High School massacre was like nothing America had ever seen when media coverage began rolling in April 1999. At the time, it was the deadliest school shooting in history, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Allowing teachers and other school personnel to carry concealed weapons on school property and eliminating gun-free school zones might be possible solutions to ending the wave of school shootings in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. An unexpected wild card in the gun regulation debate are the powerful voices of young people from Parkland, Florida who experienced the slaughter of their classmates first hand last week.…