There’s always at least one kid in tears, as they huddle under their desks in the dark. Still Beth Manias, an early-elementary literacy teacher outside of Seattle, tries to act upbeat and relaxed. “I ...

As the school year meanders to a close, now is a good time for education departments across the land to make policy changes for the next year. One urgent step should be ending the insane lockdown ...

On Tuesday, a gunman murdered 19 children and two adults when he opened fire at a Texas elementary school. The horrific act of violence offered a stark reminder of the realities all kids face in their ...

Since 1999, there have been 386 school shootings. Forty-six in 2022 alone. It’s a devastating and sobering number — one most of us can’t wrap our heads around as we prepare to send our tweens and ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Americans of all ages remember fire drills in school. Most people rarely took them seriously, but kids today face a very different reality. Images from Columbine, Colorado in ...

Here’s a memory from my school days that I just can’t seem to forget. From first grade on we were taught so-called air raid drills. We were told to duck under our desks, sit cross-legged on the floor, ...

About 50 elementary counselors in Salem-Keizer Public Schools recently spent several hours learning how to prepare and educate students ahead of lockdown drills, which can be traumatizing to some ...

When Dr. David Schonfeld’s daughter came home and told the story of a lockdown drill at school, she talked about making jokes with other students while her class hid in a closet for 30 minutes.

Last week, a picture of a little blond girl, about 3 years old, standing on a toilet circulated on social media. Her mother, Stacey Feeley, had shared the picture on Facebook and explained that she’d ...

While school lockdown drills are a fact of life in the nation’s schools, a mental health professional warns that teachers need to keep a close eye on the children as they practice. Jil Hus, a clinical ...