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Miltenberger, Raymond G.; Flessner, Christopher; Gatheridge, Brian; Johnson, Brigitte; Satterlund, Melisa; Egemo, Kristin – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2004
This study evaluated behavioral skills training (BST), in a multiple baseline across subjects design, for teaching firearm safety skills to 6 6- and 7-year-old children. Similar to previous research with 4- and 5-year-olds, half of the children acquired the safety skills following BST and half acquired the skills following BST plus in situ…
Descriptors: Safety, Weapons, Interpersonal Competence, Safety Education
Virginia Department of Education, 2008
The "Code of Virginia" requires school divisions statewide to submit data to the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) on incidents of discipline, crime, and violence (DCV). School divisions began reporting such data in 1991. This annual report focuses primarily on DCV data submitted for school year 2006-2007, with selected comparisons…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Violence, Crime, Discipline
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Reyes, Juan C.; Robles, Rafaela R.; Colon, Hector M.; Negron, Juan; Matos, Tomas D.; Calderon, Jose; Perez, Olga M. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2008
This study investigates the role of neighborhoods in adolescent violence in poor neighborhoods in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The study is part of a larger longitudinal project examining risk and resilience in adolescents' ages 12 to 15 years old and their caregivers. Using a cross-sectional design, a self-completion questionnaire, and an interviewer…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Violence, Caregivers, Early Adolescents
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de Brey, Cristobal; Snyder, Thomas D.; Zhang, Anlan; Dillow, Sally A. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2021
The 2019 edition of the "Digest of Education Statistics" is the 55th in a series of publications initiated in 1962. The purpose of the "Digest" is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from prekindergarten through graduate school. It contains data on a variety of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education, Federal Aid, Educational Finance
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Regan, Mary Elana – Journal of School Nursing, 2009
Youth violence in the city of Philadelphia, PA, has reached epidemic proportions. The majority of homicides related to gun violence is most prevalent among African American males aged 19 to 24 years. Therefore, it is essential to implement youth violence prevention programs to a target population several years younger than this age group to…
Descriptors: Field Trips, Weapons, Charter Schools, Violence
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Browning, Judkin – History Teacher, 2009
Each fall semester, on the first day of class of his upper-level American Military History course, the author informs his students that a major part of the class consists of a wargame in which they will participate. In this article, the author describes briefly how the class will be divided into two teams, and that on a specific evening during the…
Descriptors: United States History, Military Science, Active Learning, Games
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Salies, Tania Gastao – Simulation & Gaming, 2007
This article critically reflects on the GUN CONTROL simulation (Salies, 1994a) by retaking ideas advanced by Salies (2002) and applying them to the context of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) writing classes in Brazil. It examines how controlled practice relates to learners' performance on the first draft in a simulation-based content unit…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Weapons, Gun Control, Foreign Countries
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Ballard, Chet; Brady, Lauren – Journal of School Violence, 2007
School superintendents in 60 public school systems in Georgia were surveyed to describe strategies being pursued to prevent school violence and promote a safe learning environment. Results from the present study were compared with results from a survey of superintendents conducted by one of the authors in 1995 to determine the extent of change in…
Descriptors: Violence, School Safety, Prevention, Data Analysis
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Taylor, Catherine A.; Sorenson, Susan B. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2007
Objective: The aim of this study is to assess community-based support for intervening on behalf of children exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV) and to determine what contextual and respondent characteristics are associated with that support. Method: An experimental vignette design was used in a random-digit-dial survey of six ethnic groups…
Descriptors: Weapons, Intervention, Family Violence, Employment Level
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Reed, B. Cameron – Physics Teacher, 2006
In his "The Making of the Atomic Bomb," Richard Rhodes remarks of the July 16, 1945, Trinity atomic bomb test in New Mexico that "had astronomers been watching they could have seen it reflected from the moon, literal moonshine," an allusion to Ernest Rutherford's famous dismissal of the prospect of atomic energy. Investigating…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Weapons, Nuclear Physics, Astronomy
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Sanchez, Tony R. – American Secondary Education, 2006
This article asserts the importance of character education through the utilization of historical storytelling in the social studies classroom. After briefly noting the value of the historical story in this regard, a specific, ready-made example is provided concerning Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb and includes a crucial set of follow-up…
Descriptors: Weapons, Values Education, Social Studies, Story Telling
Issraelyan, Victor L.; Flowerree, Charles C. – 1982
Two international diplomats from the Soviet Union and the United States focus on the need for a treaty to ban the use of radiological weapons. Radiological weapons are those based on the natural decay of nuclear material such as waste from military or civilian nuclear reactors. Such devices include both weapons and equipment, other than a nuclear…
Descriptors: Disarmament, International Relations, Nuclear Weapons, World Problems
Zenere, Frank – Communique, 2002
This article is a professional and personal reflection of the author's time as crisis responder to the shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde. This was the author's seventh response to a school shooting in the nation, and they were on site in Uvalde for 10 days. The author's team served in the role of navigators and were assigned to families upon…
Descriptors: Violence, Weapons, Coping, Trauma
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Himle, Michael B.; Miltenberger, Raymond G. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2004
Unintentional firearm injury in children is a problem in the United States that warrants attention. Recent research has identified several risk factors for such injuries and has developed prevention strategies for reducing their occurrence. Many of these programs, however, have not been evaluated or have been shown to be ineffective. Research on…
Descriptors: Weapons, Risk, Injuries, Children
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Azrael, Deborah; Hemenway, David; Miller, Matthew; Barber, Catherine; Schackner, Robert – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2004
Data on 153 youth suicides in Arizona (1994?1999) were used to explore demographic, behavioral, and experiential factors that distinguish between firearm suicide and suicide by other means. In bivariate analyses, White youths were more likely than non-White youths to use a firearm to commit suicide as were youths who had not experienced a life…
Descriptors: Prevention, Weapons, Suicide, Youth
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