When schools implement invasive security measures without strong evidence that those measures improve safety, communities should ask difficult questions. Are these policies being adopted because they work, or because they are highly visible?
Luke Davis
Luke Davis is a first-generation college student from Richlands. As a pre-law student and sophomore at Washington and Lee University, he is majoring in Politics and minoring in Education Policy. He is a graduate of Southwest Virginia Community College and Richlands High School.
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W&L professor and student on Between worlds: Rural students, higher education and the role of TRIO
Over the past year, the TRIO program designed to get first-generation college students into school has been caught in a mix of proposed cuts and delayed funding, alongside broader policy discussions about the future of the U.S. Department of Education and the scope of federal involvement in education.
