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Freilich, Joshua D.; Chermak, Steven M.; Connell, Nadine M.; Klein, Brent R.; Greene-Colozzi, Emily A. – Journal of School Violence, 2022
This study uses open source information to examine school shootings in the United States for the 1990-2016 period. We innovatively created a national-level database to address the gaps in existing research and identified 652 school shootings. These shootings included 473 intentional shootings (encompassing 354 with known offenders and 119 with…
Descriptors: Weapons, School Violence, Homicide, Information Sources
Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2022
As the 2021-22 academic year came to a close, the United States was rocked by the news of another school mass shooting, this time at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Nineteen fourth-grade students and two of their teachers were killed when an 18-year-old former student entered the school through an unlocked door, made his way to his former…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, School Violence, Weapons, Student Behavior
Bryner, Lindsay – Education and Society, 2021
A major teacher shortage exists in the United States. As teachers leave the classroom in droves, administrators are forced to hire unlicensed educators in order to fill vacant positions. Teachers have decided to change professions due to a lack of competitive salaries, fear of personal safety, and a lack of support from education stakeholders.…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Labor Turnover, Teaching Conditions, School Safety
Martin-Denham, Sarah – Support for Learning, 2021
The study presents data drawn from semi-structured interviews with five young people permanently excluded from schools in North East England. The research aimed to investigate the risk factors that lead to the children using illegal drugs, to determine the drivers and implications for drug misuse and the carrying of knives into school. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, At Risk Students, Drug Abuse, Weapons
Hengameh Hashemi Toosi – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Attitudes towards concealed carry of guns (CCG) on campus are diverse across society and within college and university communities. The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate possible predictors of college students' attitudes toward CCG on college campuses. Using the moral foundations theory, it was hypothesized that students' types…
Descriptors: Correlation, Moral Values, Student Attitudes, College Students
Tuntivivat, Sudarat – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2023
Public schools in southern Thailand have witnessed a sharp decline in school enrollment and have struggled to remain open due to an ongoing separatist insurgency since 2004. The purpose of this sequential exploratory mixed methods research is to examine the current situation and the psychosocial factors impacting public school enrollment in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Enrollment Trends, Declining Enrollment
Travis E. Pinter – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The needs of a school community following the death of a student or staff member are not something every educator and/or school administrator may be prepared to address. Multidisciplinary crisis response teams, particularly those operating at the district level, are equipped to respond to such situations rapidly and effectively. School…
Descriptors: Crisis Management, School Districts, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
Cobbina, Jennifer E.; Galasso, Matthew; Cunningham, Mary; Melde, Chris; Heinze, Justin – Journal of School Violence, 2020
School safety is a key feature of the learning environment. Research suggests if students perceive their environment as unsafe they will face a myriad of possible detrimental consequences. Using qualitative interviews, we explore the factors most consistently identified by students as important in their feelings of safety. We examine whether the…
Descriptors: School Safety, Violence, Crime, Student Attitudes
Paolini, Allison C. – Journal of School Counseling, 2020
This article focuses on gun violence in the school setting and the role of the counselor in helping to reduce gun violence. Gun violence in schools has become pervasive for many reasons, including lack of adequate support staff, undiagnosed mental health issues, students who experience isolation, anger, depression, bullying, as well as access to…
Descriptors: Weapons, Violence, School Safety, School Counselors
Levine, Phillip B.; McKnight, Robin – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020
This paper examines student exposure to school shootings in the United States since the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School. We analyze shootings that occurred during school hours on a school day and resulted in a death. These shootings are likely to be uniformly reported and have a greater potential to cause harm -- either directly or…
Descriptors: Violence, Weapons, Educational Environment, Death
Munscher, Jessica S. – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this instrumental case study was to understand how gun violence in schools has influenced school culture for stakeholders within a small suburban school district in southeast Texas. At this stage in the research, school culture is defined as the set of norms, beliefs, values, and assumptions that are shared by the school community…
Descriptors: Weapons, School Violence, Teacher Attitudes, School Culture
James E. Jones V. – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Campus shootings have impacted campuses across the United States for almost two centuries. Between 2015 and 2016, at least three historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) experienced multiple shootings where students were killed in each incident. This qualitative comparative case study used secondary data to explore the similarities and…
Descriptors: Violence, Black Colleges, Weapons, Campuses
Marcus Harmes – History of Education Review, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of the study is to examine educational history through television's portrayal of educational activity in post-apocalyptic society. The paper examines how and why television drama set after a catastrophe is in dialogue with, but rejects, both contemporary government discourse of "protect and survive".…
Descriptors: Educational History, Television, Programming (Broadcast), War
Riley Burr; Jana Kemp; Ke Wang; Deanne Swan – National Center for Education Statistics, 2024
Using data from the School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS), this report presents findings both on crime and violence in U.S. public schools and on the practices and programs schools have used to promote school safety. SSOCS is managed by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) within the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of…
Descriptors: School Safety, Public Schools, Crime, School Surveys
Rudzani Israel Lumadi – Perspectives in Education, 2024
School violence plays a significant role in shaping a school's culture and climate, which can have an impact on the participation and performance of learners in secondary education. In many instances, school violence can hinder the educational aspirations of learners. This paper investigates the impact of school violence on learners through the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Violence, School Culture, Educational Environment