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Fickes, Michael – School Planning and Management, 1998
Presents a strategy that can be used by public school officials to reduce the number of weapons coming into schools. Addresses creating policies to protect children from bullies, educating students about the school's weapons policy, initiating weapons-screening procedures, applying consistent sanctions, and acting on tips about students carrying…
Descriptors: Bullying, Crime Prevention, Elementary Secondary Education, Guns
Hurst, Marianne D. – Education Week, 2005
The Columbine High School shootings were still fresh in the minds of educators across the nation in May 1999, when school district officials in the small, quiet town of Port Huron, Michigan, unearthed a similarly violent student plot targeted for one of their middle schools. Four students from Holland Woods Middle School had allegedly written out…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, School Safety, Violence, Middle School Students
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Kuntsche, Emmanuel N.; Klingemann, Harald K.-H. – Journal of Adolescence, 2004
After reviewing prevalence rates, this work tries to identify gender specific groups in which weapon-carrying occurs in the context of victim and offender related violent behaviours. [kappa]-Means cluster and logistic regression analyses were calculated, based on a cross-sectional survey of a national representative sample of 1549 15-year-olds as…
Descriptors: Weapons, Schools, Incidence, Victims of Crime
Christian, Cinda; Garland, Marshall W.; McCracken, Kasey – Online Submission, 2008
This report summarizes evaluation results for AISD's federally-funded Title IV safe and drug-free schools program activities for the 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 school years.
Descriptors: School Districts, Grants, Drug Abuse, Violence
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McNamara, John; Vervaeke, Sherri-Leigh; Willoughby, Teena – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2008
Risk-taking behavior includes alcohol and drug use, delinquency, acts of aggression, sexual activity, and so on. Many studies have explored the relationship between adolescents and risk-taking behavior; however, only a few studies have examined this link in adolescents with learning disabilities (LD) or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Adolescents
New Jersey Department of Education, 2010
The Commissioner's annual report provides the Legislature with information reported by school districts concerning incidents of serious student misconduct grouped into the following four major reporting categories: violence, vandalism, weapons, and substance abuse. An analysis of trends yields indications of progress and of ongoing concern, and…
Descriptors: Weapons, Charter Schools, Substance Abuse, Violence
Montgomery County Public Schools, 2008
"MCPS School Safety and Security at a Glance" provides, in a single document, information about the reporting of incidents related to school safety and security, including school climate, local school safety program descriptions, and serious incidents in all Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools. The information is presented for…
Descriptors: Counties, School Safety, School Security, Elementary Schools
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Nansel, Tonja R.; Overpeck, Mary D.; Haynie, Denise L.; Ruan, W. June; Scheidt, Peter C. – Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 2003
A sample of 15,686 students in grades 6 through 10 in public and private schools completed a self-report survey in 1998 of weapon carrying, weapon carrying in school, physical fighting, and being injured in a physical fight. Involvement ranged from 13 percent to 23 percent of boys and 4 percent to 11 percent of girls. Concludes bullying is a…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Bullying, Educational Environment, High School Students
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Romans, John S. C.; Hays, Joni R.; Pearson, Christy; Duroy, L. Chris; Carlozzi, Barbara – Journal of School Violence, 2006
In a study of stalking in secondary schools, 140 respondents reported they had been stalked, with perpetrators being evenly distributed between students and non-students. The largest non-student group of perpetrators was parents of students. Harassing phone calls and threatening correspondence constituted most of the stalking behaviors, but…
Descriptors: Prevention, School Counselors, Violence, Bullying
Canter, Andrea, Ed. – Communique, 1999
During a crisis, parents can do a great deal to help their child deal with grief and anxiety. This special issue provides information and promising practices that might be helpful in dealing with various crisis situations. Provides the following articles: (1) "Children Killing Children" (Kevin Dwyer); (2) "Disaster: Helping Children…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Bullying, Children, Coping
Addington, Lynn A.; Ruddy, Sally A.; Miller, Amanda K.; DeVoe, Jill F. – 2002
The American public continues to be concerned about crime in schools and the safety of students. This report is the first to focus on data collected by the 1999 School Crime Supplement (SCS) to the National Crime Victimization Survey. Following the introduction and background, nine chapters report and provide statistics on various facets of school…
Descriptors: Bullying, Crime, Elementary Secondary Education, Government Publications
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Laufer, Avital; Harel, Yossi; Molcho, Michal – Journal of School Violence, 2006
This study explores whether the association between substance use and involvement in youth violence is a unique association resulting from the properties of the drugs, or whether it is part of a larger behavioral cluster. The sample was composed of 1,571 10th grade students from the Israeli secular and religious state school systems, including…
Descriptors: State Schools, Jews, Intervention, Violence
Canter, Andrea S., Ed.; Carroll, Servio A., Ed. – 1999
This collection of resources is a response to the unprecedented crises for school children, staff, and communities in 1997-1998. It is based on and is an expansion of the November 1998 issue of "Communique," a book of handouts, and other National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) publications. This packet contains the applied…
Descriptors: Bullying, Children, Crisis Intervention, Death
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Dinkes, Rachel; Cataldi, Emily Forrest; Kena, Grace; Baum, Katrina – National Center for Education Statistics, 2006
This report provides the most recent national indicators on school crime and safety. Some of these indicators document that student safety has improved. For example, the victimization rate of students ages 12-18 at school declined from 73 victimizations per 1,000 students in 2003 to 55 per 1,000 students victimizations in 2004. However, other…
Descriptors: Victims of Crime, Narcotics, Weapons, Sexual Abuse
New Jersey Department of Education, 2009
The Commissioner's annual report provides the Legislature with information reported by school districts concerning incidents of serious student misconduct grouped into the following four major reporting categories: violence, vandalism, weapons, and substance abuse. An analysis of trends yields indications of progress and of ongoing concern, and…
Descriptors: Weapons, Charter Schools, Substance Abuse, Violence
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