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Polland, Scott; Rosenburg, Steve – Communique, 2011
A tragic school shooting occurred in Brazil on April 7, 2011. A young adult male returned to the school that he had previously attended, Tasso da Silveira in Realengo, and shot and killed 13 and wounded another 20 students or teachers. Realengo, a suburb of Rio de Janeiro, is composed of hard working lower and middle class families with strong…
Descriptors: Violence, Foreign Countries, School Safety, School Psychologists
Sulkowski, Michael L.; Lazarus, Philip J. – Communique, 2011
Ten Septembers ago, people witnessed the worst terrorist attack ever committed on American soil. Most Americans can still see the images of airplanes violently crashing into buildings. On that fateful September day in 2001, the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) was faced with the challenge of trying to support the needs of…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, School Counseling, Crisis Management, Terrorism
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