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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
Analysis of 48 Hours of Television News Coverage Following the Columbine High School Shooting
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Mosqueda, Christopher M.; Heath, Melissa A.; Cutrer-Párraga, Elizabeth A.; Ridge, Robert D.; Jackson, Aaron P.; Miller, Erica – School Psychology Review, 2023
On April 20, 1999, two Columbine High School students started a shooting rampage, ultimately killing 12 students and one teacher, wounding 21 victims, then completing suicide. Using media frame analysis (MFA), we examined 265 transcribed major network television news stories aired during the 48 hours following the shooting. In these stories, we…
Descriptors: Violence, Weapons, School Safety, High School Students
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
Guns, Schools, and Democracy: Adolescents Imagining Social Futures through Speculative Civic Literacies
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Mirra, Nicole; Garcia, Antero – American Educational Research Journal, 2022
This article analyzes how guns emerged as both urgent topics of dialogue and common features of everyday life for 228 students and their teachers in six communities across the United States who participated in the Digital Democratic Dialogue (3D) Project, a year long social design-based experiment aimed at foregrounding youth voice and fostering…
Descriptors: Weapons, Civics, Citizenship Education, Violence
Lessons Learned from Columbine
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Goff, Jane – State Education Standard, 2019
On April 20, 1999, two Columbine High School students walked into their school midday and killed 12 students and one teacher. Twenty-one other students were injured. All that had been normal came to an abrupt end. Education leaders in Jefferson County, Colorado, quickly realized they were laying the groundwork for a new normal. Colorado's…
Descriptors: Homicide, Violence, School Safety, Crisis Management
Gender Differences in the Relative Impact of Physical and Relational Bullying on Adolescent Injury and Weapon Carrying
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Dukes, Richard L.; Stein, Judith A.; Zane, Jazmin I. – Journal of School Psychology, 2010
Using structural equation modeling, concurrent associations were assessed among physical bullying, relational bullying, physical victimization, relational victimization, injury and weapon carrying using data from the population of 1300 adolescent girls and 1362 adolescent boys in grades 7-12 in a Colorado school district. For both genders, being a…
Descriptors: Weapons, Bullying, Secondary School Students, Structural Equation Models