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The Voice of Experience: A Multi-State Empirical Examination of Arming School District Employees from Superintendents Working in School Districts with Armed Personnel
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Jacob D. Skousen; Isaac Calvert; Spencer C. Weiler; Sterling Hilton; Jason Kopanke; Luke M. Cornelius – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2024
The issue of school safety has been interrogated as school shootings have occurred multiple times each year in the United States. This devastating reality has captured the attention of many throughout the United States. School leaders have implemented strategies to increase school safety, including the creation of practices to deter shooting…
Descriptors: Weapons, School Violence, School Security, School Policy
The Consequences of High-Fatality School Shootings for Surviving Students
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Phillip B. Levine; Robin McKnight – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2024
This paper examines the impact of high-fatality school shootings on the subsequent outcomes of the survivors of those events. We focus specifically on the shootings at Columbine High School (Littleton, CO), Sandy Hook Elementary (Newtown, CT), and Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School (Parkland, FL). We assess the subsequent educational record,…
Descriptors: Violence, Weapons, Death, High School Students
Mad Men in the Academy: Masculinity and Gun Violence in American Higher Education
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Ryan Braun – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Despite significant cultural attention on the phenomenon of school shootings, one of the most predictive dimensions of these tragedies is under-analyzed: gender. Men commit 98% of mass shootings, but robust discussion and research on this relationship is lacking. This dissertation investigates the relationship between masculinity and gun violence…
Descriptors: Masculinity, Weapons, Violence, Higher Education
Taking Aim at Preventing School Shootings: A Comparative Analysis of School Board Policy Related to the Practice of Arming Educators
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Weiler, Spencer C.; Skousen, Jacob D.; Kopanke, Jason; Cornelius, Luke – Journal of School Violence, 2021
The issue of school safety is of paramount concern but what is lacking is clarity on the best course of action aimed at bolstering safety in public schools. We sought to answer the following research questions: What topics are addressed in school board policies related to arming employees? What outlying policy topics are addressed in school board…
Descriptors: School Safety, Violence, Weapons, School Districts
Differences in Perception of Safety before and after School Shootings: A Multi-Event Analysis
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Highberger, James; Wang, Wenjin; Brittingham, Rochelle – Journal of School Violence, 2022
Scholars have explored ways in which school shooting events have impacted students' perception of safety. However, less is known on whether the effects of school shootings are stable across time and event. This study uses data collected through the Delaware School Survey before and after three school shootings, Columbine (1999), Virginia Tech…
Descriptors: Violence, School Safety, Weapons, Student Attitudes
Pulling the Trigger: The Decision of Arming School Staff in a Large, Diverse School District
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Kent, Jennifer K.; Curran, F. Chris – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2021
Based on events in Florida, this case explores issues that accompany the choice to arm school personnel as a means to address school violence and shootings. Readers consider the issue from the perspective of the school board of a large, diverse district and are presented with dilemmas while they consider the effectiveness, the political…
Descriptors: Weapons, School Safety, School Violence, Law Enforcement