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Al Stein-Seroussi; Sean Hanley; David Currey; Bruce A. Lawrence; Ted R. Miller – Journal of School Violence, 2025
The State of Nevada launched the "Nevada SafeVoice" anonymous tip line to prevent harmful events in schools and to promote student safety, health, and wellbeing. We assessed the extent to which "SafeVoice" contributed to reductions in school discipline incidents, youth suicides, and increases in the positive school climate.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, School Violence, School Safety, Suicide
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Bush-Mecenas, Susan; Woo, Ashley; Wrabel, Stephani L.; Lee, Sabrina; Kim, Brian – RAND Corporation, 2023
Providing and using technical assistance for capacity building within educational agencies is a complex endeavor. The U.S. Department of Education funds technical assistance centers to support state education agencies (SEAs) and local education agencies (LEAs) in the capacity-building process. Established in 2018, the Center to Improve Social and…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Technical Assistance, Social Emotional Learning, State Departments of Education
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Cornell, Dewey; Maeng, Jennifer – Contemporary School Psychology, 2018
In 2013, VA became the first state to mandate the use of threat assessment teams in its K-12 public schools. We provide an account of the development and adaptation of threat assessment as a school safety practice and research on the Virginia Student Threat Assessment Guidelines in VA schools. We describe the state law and the question of whether…
Descriptors: Risk Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Program Development
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Lenhardt, Ann Marie C.; Graham, Lemuel W.; Farrell, Melissa L. – Educational Forum, 2018
Targeted violence continues to pose a threat to school safety. Reported here are the results of a study of 18 cases of school shooters from 1996 to 2012. Variables examined are individual factors and behaviors, family dynamics, and triggering events. Results indicate the need for expanded school-based mental health services, threat assessment, and…
Descriptors: Guidelines, School Safety, Violence, Weapons
Niloofar Bavarian; Banafsheh Behzad; Sheena Cruz – Grantee Submission, 2020
School health programs are united by their desire to promote health and health-related outcomes among youth. They are also united by the fact that their expected effects are contingent on successful program implementation, which is often impeded by a multitude of real-world barriers. Techniques used in management science may help optimize…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Health Education, Health Promotion, Program Implementation
Global Partnership for Education, 2019
Despite significant gains in recent years, education outcomes for girls in developing countries continue to lag behind those of boys. Adolescence is a particularly critical stage for girls, marked by rapid biological and psychological changes as well as powerful social expectations of how their lives should unfold. For many girls in developing…
Descriptors: Females, Gender Differences, Gender Bias, Equal Education
Lovell, Rick; Pope, Carl E.; Canevit, Scott – US Department of Justice, 2005
The purpose of this project was to document and assess efforts initiated by the Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) to enhance integration of law enforcement into school safety. The MPS Division of Security and Safety led a two year pilot initiative (September, 2001 through August, 2003) to increase communication and collaboration across a number of…
Descriptors: Police, Law Enforcement, School Safety, Program Descriptions
Finn, Peter; McDevitt, Jack; Lassiter, William; Shively, Michael; Rich, Tom – US Department of Justice, 2005
There has been a growing interest in placing sworn law enforcement officers in schools as School Resource Officers (SROs) as a means of improving school safety and improving relations between police officers and youth. However, when this project began in May 2000, relatively little was known about SRO programs. The purpose of the National…
Descriptors: School Safety, Law Enforcement, Case Studies, Police
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Sanger, Dixie; Spilker, Anna; Wiliiams, Nicole; Belau, Don – Journal of Correctional Education, 2007
The purpose of this study was to survey the opinions of female juvenile delinquents residing in a correctional center about the role of teachers and schools in serving students involved in violence. The term violence referred to behaviors and actions including threats or intentional harm to individuals or property (Van Hasselt & Hersen, 1999). A…
Descriptors: Prevention, Learning Problems, Teacher Attitudes, Females
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Armstrong, Todd A.; Webb, Vincent – Journal of School Violence, 2006
Despite a growing research literature identifying evidence-based prevention strategies, schools often adopt programs lacking evidentiary support (Gottfredson and Gottfredson, 2002; Ringwalt et al., 2002). Further, when evidence-based programs are adopted they often suffer from poor implementation (Gottfredson and Gottfredson, 2002). This gap…
Descriptors: Prevention, School Personnel, Violence, School Safety
Munoz, Marco A. – 2002
Second Step, a research-based violence prevention program for kindergarten through middle school aged children, was implemented in several Jefferson County Public Schools. The objective of Second Step is to increase children's ability to identify with how others are feeling, take others' perspectives, and respond empathetically while decreasing…
Descriptors: Aggression, Conflict Resolution, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Hawaii Univ., Honolulu. Head Start Research and Evaluation Center. – 1974
This report focuses on the major similarities and differences of three sets of day care licensing standards (model, state, and federal) in order to provide an information base for isolating the problems, concerns, and issues involved in day care licensing. Sets of standards compared are: (1) "OCD Guides for Day Care Licensing," 1973…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Agency Cooperation, Comparative Analysis, Coordination
ACT, Inc., 2010
This report presents the findings for public four-year colleges and universities that participated in ACT's 2010 What Works in Student Retention survey. The report contains information pertinent to only these institutions. Appended are: (1) Data for Public Four-Year Colleges and Universities; and (2) What Works in Student Retention: Instrument.…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Academic Persistence, School Holding Power, College Students