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Ep 11. Do armed teachers make schools safer? Dr. Jason Koele carries a gun at school and wrote his dissertation about it.
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Ep 11. Do armed teachers make schools safer? Dr. Jason Koele carries a gun at school and wrote his dissertation about it.

Do teachers feel safer when they are armed on campus? Do unarmed teachers feel safer if a coworker has a gun? Dr. Koele found statistically significant evidence to answer these questions.

Host: David Riedman, founder of the K-12 School Shooting Database

Guest: Dr. Jason Koele, Missouri middle school principal

Dissertation: Differences Between Missouri K-12 Educator Perceptions of Safety on Campuses that Allow Teachers Concealed Carry and Those That Do Not


David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.

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