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Guns, School Shooters, and School Safety: What We Know and Directions for Change
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Flannery, Daniel J.; Fox, James Alan; Wallace, Lacey; Mulvey, Edward; Modzeleski, William – School Psychology Review, 2021
We summarize current data and understanding about the prevalence of gun violence at schools and risk of rampage school shootings. Following that comes a discussion of gun availability among youth and strategies and practices in the United States and abroad that have been implemented to limit access to firearms for minors. Next, we review the…
Descriptors: Weapons, Violence, School Safety, Mental Health
School Threat Assessment in the USA: Lessons Learned from 15 Years of Teaching and Using the Federal Model to Prevent School Shootings
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Modzeleski, William; Randazzo, Marisa Reddy – Contemporary School Psychology, 2018
This article provides a brief history of the development of the federal model of school threat assessment, which was created by the U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Department of Education based upon findings from their empirical research on school shootings across the USA. The article reviews the major findings from that behavioral research, which…
Descriptors: Prevention, Models, Weapons, Educational Environment
An Introduction to the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative
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Modzeleski, William; Mathews-Younes, Anne; Arroyo, Carmen G.; Mannix, Danyelle; Wells, Michael E.; Hill, Gary; Yu, Ping; Murray, Stephen – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012
The Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) Initiative offers a unique opportunity to conduct large-scale, multisite, multilevel program evaluation in the context of a federal environment that places many requirements and constraints on how the grants are conducted and managed. Federal programs stress performance-based outcomes, valid and reliable…
Descriptors: School Safety, Child Health, Partnerships in Education, Federal Programs
Campus Attacks: Targeted Violence Affecting Institutions of Higher Education
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Drysdale, Diana A.; Modzeleski, William; Simons, Andre B. – US Department of Homeland Security, 2010
On the third anniversary of the tragic shooting at Virginia Tech, the U.S. Secret Service, the U.S. Department of Education and the Federal Bureau of Investigation released this study of targeted violence incidents on U.S. campuses of higher learning. The three entities wanted to know how the prevalence of the incidents of targeted violence affect…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Violence, Definitions, Colleges
What Can Be Done about School Shootings? A Review of the Evidence
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Borum, Randy; Cornell, Dewey G.; Modzeleski, William; Jimerson, Shane R. – Educational Researcher, 2010
School shootings have generated great public concern and fostered a widespread impression that schools are unsafe for many students; this article counters those misapprehensions by examining empirical evidence of school and community violence trends and reviewing evidence on best practices for preventing school shootings. Many of the school safety…
Descriptors: Violence, School Safety, Prevention, Crisis Management
Prior Knowledge of Potential School-Based Violence: Information Students Learn May Prevent a Targeted Attack
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Pollack, William S.; Modzeleski, William; Rooney, Georgeann – US Department of Education, 2008
In the wake of several high-profile shootings at schools in the United States, most notably the shootings that occurred at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, the United States Secret Service (Secret Service) and the United States Department of Education (ED) embarked on a collaborative endeavor to study incidents of planned (or…
Descriptors: Violence, Prior Learning, Case Studies, Audiences