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 ...

Recently, a viral video of a teacher singing to her classroom has terrified me. It shows a kindergarten class in Monterrey, Mexico, and their teacher is leading them in cheery Barney songs – while ...

FAIRFAX, Va. (7News) — A national study found a majority of U.S. teens worry a shooting could happen at their school. That concern has a majority of states requiring schools to conduct drills to ...

PHOENIX — The nation’s two largest teachers unions worry active shooter drills can harm students’ mental health, and the head of Arizona’s school resource officers group agrees these drills can be ...

HOUSTON — As kids settle in to the routine another school year brings, a big question for parents: Do you know when your child's school will hold it's lockdown drill? The National Association of ...

Schools have been engaging in active shooter drills for years, though depending on the district, there might be another word for them. Still, year after year, all grade levels do what they have to in ...

A generation of children is growing up with the pervasive fear of mass school shootings, while enduring mandated emergency drills that start as early as preschool and last through senior year of high ...

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 ...