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Should Schools Respond to Shootings More Like the Military Does?
Residents call for an end to gun violence during a march on February 2, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old honor student who performed in President Obama's second inauguration parade, was shot and killed while hanging out with friends on January 29. Pendleton was the 44th homicide recorded in Chicago for 2013.Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images
The NRA and its like-minded allies have talked about putting armed guards in schools to prevent school shootings like the one we saw in Newtown. But when it comes to dealing with the aftermath of violence?be it a mass shooting in the classroom or gang-related violence off-campus?some schools are looking to another organization with its own expertise in guns: the military. Could the military?s methods actually do some good in America's schools?
That's one of the questions asked by a new two-part This American Life series that began airing Friday evening. The show is definitely worth a listen. One specific part that jumped out is a segment about how one Chicago public school in particular?West Englewood's Harper High School, which has seen 29 current and recent students shot and eight killed in the past year alone?is grappling with gun violence.
Three years ago, Harper administrators started using a system called After Action Review, or AAR, to respond to violent incidents involving their students. TAL chronicles the school's response after a former student gets shot outside of a gas station. The day after the shooting, Harper's principal convened the AAR group, which consists of about two-dozen people all together, ranging from social workers to the school's football coach. Such meetings serve as something of a debriefing during which the school pieces together the information they have about the incident: What happened? Who was involved? The group's main purpose is reactionary, but it's a start. If you listen to the episode, you can start to comprehend what a daunting task it must be to combat gun violence as a community-wide epidemic.
So where did the school get this idea from? That's right, the military. Here's the relevant snippet from tonight's transcript:
A couple years ago Chicago Public School officials were visiting Fort Leavenworth in Kansas to research military training tools?tools they might use to prepare people working in the city?s roughest schools. They came across the AAR, the Army?s tool for analyzing events, for assessing damage, compiling information, and trying to figure out how to respond. ...
A district administrator told me, think about it: the natural response for a school after a shooting is to go into panic, and to grieve and to hope that it never happens again. That?s normal. And so when the Chicago Schools first brought the AAR in from Fort Leavenworth, and suggested it to Harper some people said it felt wrong. Like they?d be planning for students to be shot. But the staff at Harper knew it would be better to have procedures and a plan to contain the damage. That?s the AAR.
You can listen to the first episode?here.
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NFL veteran hired to coach cornerbacks at Nevada
RENO, Nev. (AP) ? Nevada coach Brian Polian has completed his on-field coaching staff with the hiring of an NFL veteran to coach cornerbacks.
Ricky Thomas comes to Nevada after coaching last season at Georgia State and 15 seasons before that in the NFL.
Thomas coached the defensive front at George State in 2012. Before that, he spent 10 seasons with the Indianapolis Colts, including eight as the tight ends coach.
He previously spent five seasons with Tony Dungy in Tampa Bay, coaching the Buccaneers' tight ends for three seasons. He has coached in two Super Bowls, winning a ring with the Colts in 2007.
Thomas was a four-year starter at safety at Alabama, where he earned a bachelor's degree in health and physical education.
He and his wife, Kimberly, have two children.
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Posterous to Turn Off the Lights at End of April, Just Over One Year After Being Acquired by Twitter
Posterous is one of those social media startups that never seemed to find a specific place to call its own on the Internet. It?s not like we don?t already have Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, among others. That was before it was acquired by Twitter last March. After just over a year of pretty much doing nothing with Posterous, it?s been revealed that Twitter will be shutting the service down on April 30th. All five people that were still using the service will surely be very distraught.
It?s not like Twitter hasn?t already folded the meat of Posterous? team into their own operation. There?s likely only been a skeleton of a skeleton crew keeping the service running. If Posterous is something you actually use, or did use, you can download whatever videos, photos, and documents were on the service. Here are the steps you need to take to do so, straight from Posterous? blog:
- Go to http://posterous.com/#backup.
- Click to request a backup of your Space by clicking ?Request Backup? next to your Space name.
- When your backup is ready, you?ll receive an email.
- Return to http://posterous.com/#backup to download a .zip file.
See? That wasn?t so hard.
If the closing of Posterous hits you particularly hard, there?s always Tumblr, or like a million other small versions of both. People can?t get enough of that social media, it seems.
(Posterous via TechCrunch)
Source: http://www.geekosystem.com/posterous-shutting-down/
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Obama bypasses Congress, goes public with economic pitches
Weeks before President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, White House aides were locking down a plan for the sales pitch that would follow during three days of travel focused on his main themes.
The effort to promote Obama's proposals on jobs, wages and education involved visits to Asheville, N.C., Decatur Ga., and Chicago, participating in a Google+ chat and mobilizing the president's formidable former campaign apparatus.
One thing it didn't include? Congress.
For the White House, this is a campaign for public opinion, not one to write specific legislation.
When it comes to broadening early education or raising the minimum wage, Obama is not ready to make lawmakers a part of the process yet.
Instead, Obama is trying to change an economic debate that has been focused on deficits and on managing the national debt to one about middle-class opportunities and economic growth. Just into his second term, Obama and his aides want to move away from the type of budget confrontations that have defined the past two years and take advantage of his re-election to pressure Republicans.
"If the Republicans reflexively oppose everything the president does, we have to go directly to the American people to marshal their support to get things done," Obama senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said. "The metric we're looking at is whether you start to see fissures in the Republican coalition."
This president, like recent ones before him, has gone to the public before in hopes of persuading lawmakers. It hasn't always proved a winning tactic.
President Bill Clinton failed to use the public to win support for his health care overhaul. President George W. Bush was unable to make changes to Social Security in his second term.
Obama tried to muster public support to fight climate change but the legislative effort came up short. Even Obama's all-out effort on behalf of sweeping health care changes only succeeded in keeping Democrats unified, not in winning over Republicans.
But Obama and White House aides are heartened by what they believe were successful public appeals for extending a payroll tax cut in 2010 and for preventing a doubling of interest rates on federal student loans last summer.
What made those different was that they addressed pressing issues: The payroll tax cut was expiring at year's end and interest rates on student loans were set to double last July 1.
Expanding preschools and raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to $9 an hour by the end of 2015, on the other hand, are policy ideas just sprung on Congress during last Tuesday's prime-time speech.
"When there is no clear path between what he called for in the State of the Union and then going on the road, and there's no road map about exactly when we're going to get into these issues, it's a little bit like shouting in the forest," said Patrick Griffin, the White House legislative director under Clinton. "Something has to be queued up in order to make these visits work."
David Winston, a Republican pollster and strategist who advises House Republicans, said the key to a successful policy campaign is two-fold.
"The first and central is how important is solving whatever problem is being defined," he said. "The second one is does the defined benefit solve the problem."
He argues that even though Obama in 2010 won the health care fight in a partisan showdown, the public didn't judge health care to be as important as dealing with the economy. As a result, Republicans won control of the House in elections that year.
The White House strategy now in part recognizes that the economy remains the No. 1 public concern even as the president engages Congress on issues such as immigration and gun violence.
It was finally on Friday, his last road trip of the week, when Obama brought his message back to guns. But even then, like in his State of the Union speech, he connected it to his main economic themes. Speaking not far from his Hyde Park home on Chicago's South Side, Obama linked the near-daily violence to communities where there is little economic hope.
At the White House, Pfeiffer argues that it would be pointless to present Congress with legislation on preschools and minimum wage increases now when the president is just raising the profile of the two issues and when he's already working with Congress on other matters.
"There's a lot of traffic in the legislative process right now," he said. "If we were to send a bill up on some of these things tomorrow, you guys would all write that the president has overloaded the system."
In pushing his agenda, Obama is wielding extra muscle that he didn't employ before, relying on his reconfigured re-election campaign operation. The organization has reappeared as a nonprofit group ready to engage in legislative fights and grass-roots mobilization to supplement the White House.
The group, Organizing for Action, planned a tele-town hall Saturday hosted by Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago mayor who was Obama's White House chief of staff. The event was intended to press the same themes Obama has pushed for the past four days.
Another expected participant was Austan Goolsbee, former chairman of Obama's Council of Economic Advisers.
The group's board of directors includes former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs and top campaign officials such as Stephanie Cutter and Julianna Smoot. Obama senior campaign adviser David Axelrod will serve as a consultant.
All retain strong ties to the White House; Axelrod and Emanuel were in the West Wing last week.
Griffin, the former Clinton aide, said such an organization would introduce a brand new element to White House outreach.
He recalled Clinton's failed effort on health care and his attempt to go over the head of Congress in 1993.
"We tried to build an outside game but we were relying on external organizations to do what President Obama's team wants to do on its own," he said. "The question is, is he going to use this organization to really mobilize folks toward some specific, concrete objective. That to me is a whole new dimension to presidential congressional relations."
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