The Virginia Tech Shootings
The mass slaying at the hands of a student gunman at Virginia Polytechnic Institute have revived vexing questions and raised familiar fears for K-12 educators across the country who grapple daily with ensuring the physical safety of their students and staff.
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March 28, 2008, AP
College "threat assessment groups" are aimed at heading off the kind of bloodshed seen at Virginia Tech and at Northern Illinois University.
Updated: April 16, 2008
The proposal would be the most comprehensive update of regulations for the main federal school privacy law in two decades.
November 2, 2007
The brochures for schools and parents seek to explain when concerns about a student may be shared.
September 7, 2007
School staff members at all levels need more training on privacy laws affecting students, suggests a new report.
May 15, 2007
A task force is looking for ways to more widely disseminate proven strategies for preventing and responding to school shootings.
April 25, 2007
Our guests discussed the role of schools in monitoring and improving the mental health of troubled students.
April 23, 2007
School leaders should brace for more of the kinds of threats that forced lockdowns and evacuations at campuses around the country last week after the shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, experts warned.
April 20, 2007
When Tim Thomas took over as the principal of Westfield High School here this school year, he probably didn’t envision that fielding questions from the national media would be part of the job description.
April 19, 2007
The April 16 killings provoked the same questions that arose for K-12 officials after the 1999 rampage at Columbine High School and a string of other such incidents in the past decade: Could this happen at my school?
April 18, 2007
Campus threats forced lock-downs and evacuations at middle schools, high schools, and universities in at least 10 states yesterday following the Monday shooting rampage at Virginia Tech that killed 33 people.
Updated: April 16, 2008
There was no information available from law enforcement on whether the suspected gunman knew the two women and singled them out.
