Since the start of the school year, there have been more than 70 shootings on campuses across the U.S., according to the K-12 School Shooting Database. That level of violence is why educators in the U ...

Children go to school under an ever-present cloud—the fear of being shot to death in school. These students, who now learn about the latest shooting in real time, have come of age at a time when the ...

When the Snowflake-Taylor police department in the high desert of Arizona conducted an active shooter drill at Snowflake High School in October 2024, students didn’t take it seriously, says police ...

About 96 percent of U.S. Schools require some sort of lockdown drill, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. In the wake of the Uvalde school shooting in Texas, experts suggest ...

Image Credit: Shutterstock/Josep Suria. A father in a suburban school district in Florida received an emergency alert from ...

There have been 63 school shootings – meaning any time there is gunfire on a school campus – so far in 2026. They happen so often that preparing for one has become normal. Students as young as 4 years ...

When my son walked through the front door, he smiled, grabbed a snack, and started talking about his math quiz. He never mentioned the drill or anything unusual about his school day. I finally asked ...

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Schools are grappling with how to prepare students for the possibility of gun violence without traumatizing them. Lockdown drills are a fact of life in U.S. schools. What does that mean for students?