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Teachers often struggle to address mass traumatic events in class

  • Written by Jennifer Greif Green, Associate Professor of Special Education, Boston University
imageEducators get little to no training in how to deal with traumatic events.Pixelimage / Getty Images

After the Paris attacks of 2015 – a series of attacks in which gunmen opened fire on nightspots and a concert hall in Paris – a U.S.-based high school teacher of French described her failure to discuss the attacks in class as a “lost...

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