A leading school shootings researcher says he was wrong
A leading school shootings researcher, Ron Avi Astor, publicly acknowledged that a long-held theory about the causes of school violence was incorrect. Astor, a UCLA professor and expert in the field, shared this admission at the American Educational Research Association’s annual meeting, marking a rare instance of a scientist openly admitting a theory’s failure.
Scientists rarely announce that one of their long-held ideas has failed. But that is exactly what Ron Avi Astor, one of the nation’s leading scholars of school violence and a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, said before fellow researchers at the annual meeting in April of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). […] The post A leading school shootings researcher says he was wrong appeared first on The Hechinger Report.
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