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Tuesday Update: A teacher and an assistant principal have been suspended without pay for their role in the prank.
MONDAY: As Stephen Colbert might ask, was this a bad idea, or worst idea ever?
It’s apparently tradition at Scales Elementary School in Murfreesboro, Tenn., for teachers to to play a prank on sixth-graders at the school’s […]

The Virginia Tech community faces a difficult decision: What should it do with the scene of the April 16 tragedy? Norris Hall is where 25 students and five professors were killed April 16 by Seung-hui Cho. The university has made no plans beyond cleaning and repairing the building. Ideas for the building’s future range […]

In the aftermath of the Virginia Tech massacre, a screenwriter poses questions in The New York Times:
As responsible Americans put their heads down on their desks and reflect, should the scribes of popular entertainment be excused to the playground? We screenwriters may be overgrown teenagers who still want to be cool, but we aren’t 12 […]

Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine has signed an executive order that closes a reporting loophole that allowed Seung Hui Cho to buy the guns he used last month at Virginia Tech. But as this Richmond Times-Dispatch column notes, One loophole closed; the rest still available.

How many of the students who survived the tragic events earlier this month at Virginia Tech will decide that the memories of that day are too painful to return to the Blacksburg campus in the fall? For those of us who were not there, it’s hard to know how we would react to that experience. […]

Emergency preparedness experts say that it’s critical for police and security officers on school and university campuses to coordinate and cooperate with local law enforcement personnel. Here’s the approach New Orleans is taking.