Republican and Democratic Senators have signed onto a tentative agreement for gun reform legislation in the wake of the shooting at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school. The proposed deal for bipartisan reform, a group of senators announced Sunday, includes enhanced background checks for buyers ages 18-21 as well as funding …
Read More »I Teach Teachers. I Have No Idea How to Prepare Them For Mass Shootings
I have been in education for almost two decades, much of it working to prepare student teachers to lead classrooms of their own. In the hours since the Uvalde, Texas, massacre that killed 19 children and two of their teachers on Tuesday, I no longer know what this work entails. …
Read More »He Wrote The Onion's Famous Mass-Shooting Headline. It Still Haunts Him
As the gut-wrenching news that 19 children and two teachers were killed in their Uvalde, Texas school on Tuesday, a few people remarked grimly on social media that it was time, once more, to post The Headline. “‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens” was …
Read More »Katherine Massey, Who Was a 'Powerful Voice' for Civil Rights, Killed by Buffalo Shooter
Katherine “Kat” Massey was a strong advocate for civil rights and education for Buffalo‘s Black community. On Saturday,white supremacist teenager Payton Gendron, who has been identified as the alleged shooter, killed her and nine otherswhile they shopped in a supermarket in their predominantly Black neighborhood. It was thedeadliest mass shootingof …
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