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Moussa, Mohamed Sagayar – Prospects, 2023
The Diffa and Tillabéri regions of Niger, Africa, are greatly affected by violent security crises that impact the functioning of schools, disrupting learning spaces and teaching programs and internally displacing the population. This article analyzes educational provision in its dual social and urgent dimensions and questions both the state of…
Descriptors: Refugees, Geographic Regions, Violence, Access to Education
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Benjamin P. Comer; Eric J. Connolly; Matthew B. Fuller – Journal of School Violence, 2024
While previous studies have assessed public opinions for arming teachers in K-12 schools in the United States, comparatively less research has focused on understanding teachers' opinions for such policies and assessed whether and to what extent school- and individual-level factors are associated with differences in support. The current study aims…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Attitudes, Weapons, School Safety
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Jaclyn Schildkraut; Amanda B. Nickerson; Matt Vogel; Abbie Finnerty – Journal of School Violence, 2024
Although lockdown drills are a practice widely used in K-12 public schools across the United States to prepare students and staff to respond to acts of violence, research has only just begun to consider the impacts of these practices on those who participate in them. This study adds to the growing body of literature by examining the potential…
Descriptors: Violence, School Safety, Emergency Programs, Drills (Practice)
McKenna, Joseph; Russo, Sarah; Sutherland, Hannah; Boal, Ashley; Petrosino, Anthony – WestEd, 2022
State school safety centers (SSSCs) aim to provide a wide range of services to enhance school security. Still, more information is needed to understand how the centers should operate and what factors determine their success. In 2021, the WestEd Justice & Prevention Research Center received funding from the U.S. National Institute of Justice to…
Descriptors: School Safety, Emergency Programs, School Security, State Agencies
Covarrubias, Jason E. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
School shooting prevention has become a priority for educational leadership for nearly twenty years. The brutality and significant loss of life distinguish the attacks at Columbine High School and Sandy Hook Elementary School (Jonson, 2017). However, lawmakers encounter difficulty with the wide range of behaviors, program initiatives, and risk…
Descriptors: School Safety, Educational Planning, Violence, Prevention
William G. Petrovey – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The research in this dissertation was conducted to measure the accessibility, presentation, and format of active shooter protocol for college faculty and staff at institutions of higher education in the state of New Jersey. The study further explores the need for availability of active shooter policy given the unfortunate growing problem of active…
Descriptors: Violence, Weapons, College Faculty, School Personnel
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Aziman Abdullah; Pang Jieyu – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
It is essential to save lives during emergencies not only in hospitals but also in colleges and universities. Failure to identify risks and take prompt action during catastrophes and emergency situations could result in the loss of life and property for the campus community. This research aims to explore the feasibility of using data analytics to…
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, Information Technology, Planning, Higher Education
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Timo Savolainen; Kaisa Airo; Tuuli Jylhä – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2024
Purpose: The overall quality of education may be compromised due to the limited availability of safety and security (S&S) courses in professional teacher education. The purpose of this paper is to identify the main safety-related training needs of a higher education institution, which may provide insights for improving the quality of education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Risk Management, Crime Prevention, Violence
Jennifer Tavine Craig – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This exploratory descriptive research study examined elementary school staff perceptions of ALICE active shooter response training and how participating in the training impacted staff perceptions of their own preparedness and their perceptions of their school's level of safety. This study also examined elementary staff experiences of ALICE…
Descriptors: Weapons, Violence, School Personnel, Attitudes
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Brown, Carleton H.; DeMatthews, David – Educational Forum, 2023
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has indicated that schools are vulnerable to school shootings. Understanding the experience of school members who have experienced such tragedies provides important context for further developing much-needed preventive and responsive measures. Using narrative inquiry, we explored the experience of a…
Descriptors: Violence, Weapons, Emergency Programs, Prevention
Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center (REMS), 2022
Our nation's postsecondary institutions are entrusted to provide a safe and healthy learning environment for the students, faculty, and staff who live, work, and study on campus. Planning for emergencies may be challenging for institutions of higher education (IHEs) because of geography, environment, governance, around-the clock-operations, and…
Descriptors: School Safety, School Security, Emergency Programs, Violence
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Stevens, Tara; Barnard-Brak, Lucy; Roberts, Brook; Acosta, Rio; Wilburn, Sydney – Psychology in the Schools, 2020
The purpose of the present study was first to investigate whether both teacher-reported classroom aggression (ATT) and teachers' interaction with school shooting media (ISSM) are predictors of teachers' secondary trauma related to school shootings (STSS) and to second, consider how participation in lockdown drills may moderate these relationships.…
Descriptors: Aggression, Violence, Trauma, Drills (Practice)
Kelley Jean Montz – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The goal of this qualitative case study was to determine what institutional processes and practices have been developed in relationship to mass shootings and gun violence, as well as how mass shootings in educational settings impact the way a campus responds and prepares a safety plan. Through speaking with threat assessment team members, student…
Descriptors: Weapons, Violence, Best Practices, Police School Relationship
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Ritchie, Stuart – Education Next, 2023
School shootings are at an all-time high. That's according to the National Center for Education Statistics, which has been keeping track of the numbers for about 20 years. What are schools to do? Is there a "profile" of the typical school shooter that could help us identify those who might commit a shooting in the future? Is there some…
Descriptors: Violence, Weapons, Prediction, Student Characteristics
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Alexander, Bree A.; Harris, Helen – School Mental Health, 2020
Public school trauma responses to school shootings in the USA would benefit from a greater focus on trauma intervention in the aftermath of a shooting. The current research explored school staff attitudes toward public school trauma response after school shootings. This phenomenological study was conducted with 12 public school staff members with…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Readiness, Emergency Programs, School Safety
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