During the author's first years as a teacher, he took a part-time job to make ends meet. As an exercise instructor in a large insurance company's corporate fitness center, he worked with a wide range of employees, including the top executives. Some of those executives asked how their company could help the school. Instead of asking for a monetary…

Background: Schools experience a wide range of crime and disorder, victimizing students and staff, and undermining attempts to create a safe and orderly environment for student learning. Police have long established programs with schools, but there has been no systematic review of evaluations of these programs, outside of police-led prevention…

The Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) program differs from typical efforts to reduce gang involvement in that the G.R.E.A.T. program does not target at-risk youth but rather targets its classroom-based program at all middle school students. The three main objectives of the 9-hour curriculum taught by uniformed officers are to:…