--- title: Five Best: How To Make A Safer School description: How to make a safer school, how climate change threatens our archaeological heritage and more. canonical: https://time.com/4862489/how-to-make-a-safer-school/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-18T16:00:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:40.602Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How To Make A Safer School og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4862489/how-to-make-a-safer-school/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How To Make A Safer School twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How To Make A Safer School by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 18, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 18, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**How to make a safer school.**](https://www.citylab.com/crime/2017/07/how-to-make-a-safer-school/533709/) By Mimi Kirk in _CityLab_ **2\.** [**This is how climate change threatens our archaeological heritage.**](https://e360.yale.edu/features/heritage-at-risk-how-rising-seas-threaten-ancient-coastal-ruins) By Adam Markham in _Yale Environment 360_ **3\.** [**When facial recognition meets police body cameras, every interaction is a search.**](http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2017/07/facial-recognition-coming-police-body-cameras/139472/?oref=d-topstory) By Patrick Tucker in _Defense One_ **4\.** [**Can empathy actually aggravate inequality rather than help dispel it?**](http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2017/07/17/culture-empathy-perpetuating-inequality/ideas/nexus/) By Carolyn Pedwell in _Zócalo Public Square_ **5\.** [**Artificial sweeteners won’t help you lose weight. They may even help you do the opposite.**](https://www.statnews.com/2017/07/17/artificial-sweeteners-weight-loss/) By Catherine Caruso in _STAT News_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best: How To Make A Safer School ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4862489/how-to-make-a-safer-school/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4862489/how-to-make-a-safer-school/"},"headline":"How To Make A Safer School","datePublished":"2017-07-18T16:00:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:40.602Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4862489/how-to-make-a-safer-school/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","climate change","Education","health","empathy","body cameras"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4862489/how-to-make-a-safer-school/","name":"How To Make A Safer School"}}]}] ```