{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Billion-Dollar School Safety Boondoggle","description":" America\u2019s gun violence crisis is leaving its mark on multiple generations of young people, who don\u2019t need to be victims or even direct witnesses to shootings to suffer lasting harm. That\u2019s the big takeaway from Children Under Fire: An American Crisis, a new book by The Washington Post\u2019s John Woodrow Cox. Why are school districts spending billions to turn campuses into fortresses, despite a lack of evidence of effectiveness? What\u2019s been the psychological toll for millions of students who have endured \u201clockdowns\u201d on campus? And what questions should reporters be asking school leaders and policymakers about efforts to reduce gun violence not just at school but in wider communities? This episode of EWA Radio originally aired April 20, 2021. ","author_name":"EWA Radio","author_url":"https:\/\/www.ewa.org","html":"