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3 ways to prevent school shootings, based on research
Beverly Kingston, University of Colorado Boulder and Sarah Goodrum, University of Colorado Boulder
In the months leading up to...
Arming teachers – an effective security measure or a false sense...
Aimee Huff, Oregon State University and Michelle Barnhart, Oregon State University
In the wake of the mass shooting at...
Knoxville school shooting serves as stark reminder of a familiar –...
James Densley, Metropolitan State University and Jillian Peterson, Hamline University
With most U.S. students having learned virtually in 2020...
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...
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...
School shootings prompted protests, debates about best ways to keep students...
Jamaal Abdul-Alim, The Conversation
Editor’s note: As we come to the end of the year, Conversation editors take a look back at the stories that...
Forget lanes – we all need to head together toward preventing...
Michael Hirsh, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Many of us working in the “Gun Sense” field – that is, finding a middle ground position to...
5 things to know about mass shootings in America
Frederic Lemieux, Georgetown University
At least 10 students were killed at a Santa Fe, Texas high school on May 18 after a classmate opened fire...