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Cornell, Dewey; Sheras, Peter; Gregory, Anne; Fan, Xitao – School Psychology Quarterly, 2009
Threat assessment has been widely recommended as a violence prevention approach for schools, but there are few empirical studies of its use. This nonexperimental study of 280 Virginia public high schools compared 95 high schools using the Virginia threat assessment guidelines (Cornell & Sheras, 2006), 131 following other (i.e., locally…
Descriptors: High Schools, Violence, Crime, Bullying
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Allen, Korrie; Cornell, Dewey; Lorek, Edward; Sheras, Peter – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2008
School safety has become an important area of concern for school improvement. This study examined the effects of staff training as means of improving school responses to student threats of violence. A multidisciplinary sample of 351 staff from 2 school divisions completed pre-post training surveys as part of a 1-day training program using the…
Descriptors: School Safety, Prevention, School Personnel, Urban Population