Tag: Mass shootings
Keeping students safe is a growth industry struggling to fulfill its...
John S. Carlson, Michigan State University
In the 25 years I’ve spent working as a school psychologist and professor of school psychology, I’ve never seen...
More mental health care won’t stop the gun epidemic, new study...
Tom Wickizer, The Ohio State University; Evan V. Goldstein, The Ohio State University, and Laura Prater, The Ohio State University
Guns exact a heavy toll...
Mass shootings aren’t growing more common – and evidence contradicts common...
Christopher J. Ferguson, Stetson University
When 22 people were killed in El Paso, Texas, and nine more were killed in Dayton, Ohio, roughly 12...
Stop blaming video games for mass killings
Christopher J. Ferguson, Stetson University
In the wake of the El Paso shooting on Aug. 3 that left 22 dead and dozens injured, a...
How the ‘good guy with a gun’ became a deadly American...
Susanna Lee, Georgetown University
At the end of May, it happened again. A mass shooter killed 12 people, this time at a municipal center in...
School shooters usually show these signs of distress long before they...
Jillian Peterson, Hamline University and James Densley, Metropolitan State University
Two years before he lined his schoolmates up against a classroom wall and...
We provided psychological first aid after the Las Vegas shooting –...
Michelle Paul, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Heather Dahl, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and John A. Nixon, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Editors’ note:...
Race of mass shooters influences how the media cover their crimes,...
Laura Frizzell, The Ohio State University; Sadé L. Lindsay, The Ohio State University, and Scott Duxbury, The Ohio State University
On Jan. 24, 2014, police...
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Skipping standardized tests in 2020 may offer a chance to find...
James D. Kirylo, University of South Carolina
The Education Department is letting states cancel standardized tests. The move is a practical one: School buildings across...
