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It's time to ask deeper questions about school shootings

  • Written by Bryan Warnick, Professor of Education, The Ohio State University
Santa Fe High School graduates bow their heads in prayer during a service Sunday, May 20, 2018, in Santa Fe, Texas.David J. Phillip/AP

To what extent does school – through things like athletics, homecoming royalties or dances – encourage what some political scientists have called the “status tournament of adolescence” that...

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