school violence

A 14-year-old Brazilian student attacked two nine-year-old girls with an ax at the Alcântara Costa Municipal School, located in the rural area of the city of Farias Brito, in the state of Ceará, Brazil, on Wednesday, gravely injuring one of the girls.

Cellphone footage shared with a local Georgia television station shows a student repeatedly punching a teacher.

An 18-year-old man who attacked and killed two teachers with an axe at a Swedish high school was sentenced to life in prison.

The principal of a Boston public school was beaten until unconscious during an increase in violence in the school district.

Schools in the Paris suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis are increasing meditation workshops in an effort to help reduce violence on campus. 

Video footage of a teenage boy being brutally attacked by students on a school bus in Hamilton County, Florida, in November surfaced on social media on Thursday. The boy’s mother, who posted the video, claims that her 14-year-old son was hospitalized after he was assaulted by multiple students for wearing a hat supporting Donald Trump to school.

A new study affirms what many public policy analysts say is intuitive — that unstable family structure, including chaotic households and single-parent homes, is a primary factor in racial disparities in school behavior and suspensions.

Three middle school students who were well aware their teacher had a serious allergy, planned a scheme that sent her into anaphylactic shock and a fight for her life.

Six members of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission have recommended to the White House and Congress the continuation of Obama-era race-based school discipline practices that employ leniency for students of color and other minority groups.

Federal data released Thursday show serious incidents of violence in the nation’s public schools are on the rise at the same time more schools are employing Obama-era “restorative justice” disciplinary policies and nearly all schools are touting “social emotional learning” (SEL) practices.

China’s state-run Global Times published a scathing critique of Chinese security staff on Wednesday, deriding many security guards as poorly trained, out-of-shape, and too elderly for their demanding positions. Although it was only very briefly mentioned in the article, this concern was prompted by last week’s attack on a school classroom in Beijing.

Swedish journalist Joakim Lamotte has spent time lecturing in schools across Sweden and claims that violence is on the rise because many teachers have simply given up on attempting to deal with the problem.

Incidents of physical violence in Swedish schools have increased by 129 percent from 2012 to 2017, according to data.

A Texas high school student apparently assaulted his teacher during class on Tuesday. This reportedly occurred after the teacher took away the teen’s cell phone. Another student captured the disturbing incident, ironically, on a smartphone.

A student in Utah whose name has not been released by the authorities allegedly brought a homemade bomb to school in his backpack, researched the Islamic State (ISIS) online, hung an ISIS flag in place of a school flag, and spray-painted “ISIS Is Coming” on the wall of another high school.

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos took to task state school chiefs who, she said, operate “as if your work was only accountable to folks in my office.”

A German elementary school in Berlin, which contains a student population who almost all hail from migrant backgrounds, has been forced to hire security guards because of escalating violence. 

Civil rights and education experts say signs are pointing to the Trump administration education department’s finally getting around to rethinking the Obama-era “guidance” on school discipline that many say has hurt minority students most and made schools more dangerous.

Recent violent attacks against teachers in the St. Paul, Minnesota public schools are being linked to the adoption of the Obama administration’s “equity” policies that have grown into an ideology in which certain racial and ethnic groups have become “untouchable” when it comes to school disciplinary action.

A 13 year old Spanish boy has killed a teacher and injured four others at a school in Barcelona, attacking his victims with a crossbow and machete. He was also armed with a molotov cocktail. Authorities have said that the

A year after the Obama administration issued new school discipline policies based on the concern that students of color are “disproportionately impacted” by suspensions and expulsions, a journalist proposes the liberal policies–based in social justice ideology–are making schools less safe.