My study of school shootings began in 1998 when I evaluated a 14-year-old boy who carried out a shooting in Paducah, Kentucky. He had been bullied for years at school and he struggled with...
Seventeen years ago, I was a first-year teacher working alone in my classroom when a police officer came to my door. He told me to “get low” and to come with him to the auditorium. There, I found all...
This is not an article about how to stop gun violence in schools. Like most of America, my perspective has been forever changed by the horrific events at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The...
“You can’t handle the truth.” I’m beginning to think there was great wisdom in these five words uttered by Colonel Jessup, the character played by Jack Nicholson in the 1992 film “A Few Good Men.”...
This is how myths are made. It typically starts with a view grounded in ideology. Then “research” is generated to support the view. Lastly, pundits and policy analysts legitimize the view in the...
