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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...