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Special Webinar Presentation: In the Aftermath of Parkland
- By: admin
- On: 03/08/2018 13:14:31
- In: Education Community
When we first heard about the mass murder of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County FL on February 14th, we were compelled to help the industry in general - and our members in particular - understand something which seemed so incomprehensable. As a first step, we held a webinar on March 7 conducted by a leading researcher on school and mass shootings, who discussed one way to influence positive change.
Read More to access the recording of this webinar, as well as other related materials.
Jaclyn Schildkraut, PhD, is an assistant professor of Public Justice at the State University of New York at Oswego. She is the co-author of Mass Shootings: Media, Myths, and Realities (downloaded PDF available here) and has a new book, Mass Shootings in America: Understanding the Debates, Causes, and Responses, coming out later this year. Her research has been published in academic journals and has been featured in a host of news sources, both in the U.S. and internationally.
To view the webinar recording, please click here to register. Following the quick registration, you will receive a link to the recording.
Dr. Schildkraut shared additional materials with us:
We also encourage you to read this commentary by John G. Malcolm, vice president of the Institute for Constitutional Government and director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. This originally appeared on DailySignal.com on March 7, 2018.