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Learning from the Sandy Hook Elementary Tragedy: School Safety Protocols in a Suburban County, What We Learned as a Result
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Jurs, Rebecca – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological case study was to investigate how school safety protocols have changed in a suburban county since the Sandy Hook Elementary 2012 school shooting. Through interviews of district safety directors and school resource officers and analyzing district school safety documents, this study showed how…
Descriptors: School Safety, School Violence, Weapons, Crime
The 1994 Gun-Free Schools Act: Its Effects 25 Years Later and How to Undo Them
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Irby, Decoteau J.; Coney, Kylee – Peabody Journal of Education, 2021
Despite mounting evidence that zero-tolerance policies do not deter misbehavior, teachers and administrators continue to respond to a range of student infractions through punitive measures, such as ticketing, expelling, and suspending students. Black boys, black girls, and Latinx students are most adversely affected by discipline in the era of…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Students, Punishment, At Risk Students
Creating Safer and More Nurturing Schools: Expanding the Capacity of Schools in the Era of Future National Reform
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Hughes, Tammy L.; Fenning, Pamela A.; Crepeau-Hobson, Franci; Reddy, Linda A. – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2017
Positive academic performance is a strong indicator of subsequent positive life course outcomes (e.g., employment) as well as underrepresentation in psychiatric populations, drug use, school dropout, and subsequent legal trouble (A. Farn & J. Adams, 2016). As such, helping all children to be successful in school is a top priority for parents,…
Descriptors: School Safety, Educational Change, Violence, Educational Experience