While many American students and their parents聽, schools are also facing a number of other threats that do not involve guns. Many of these threats are related to the mental health of educators and students.
From 2018 to 2021, both before and during the pandemic,聽聽spent time studying a public middle school in the San Francisco Bay Area that serves a high-poverty community of color. The research involved spending more than 100 hours of observing classes and teacher and staff meetings. It also involved a series of interviews with 10 teachers and the principal.
