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EdChoice, 2022
This report presents the results of a poll focusing on teens and their schooling perspectives. This poll was conducted between September 21-October 3, 2022 among a national sample of 1,000 Teens. The interviews were conducted online and the data were weighted to approximate a target sample of Teens based on gender, age, race, and region. The poll…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Student Attitudes, Gender Differences, Age Differences
New Jersey Department of Education, 2022
Annually, the Department of Education (Department) collects data from school districts across the state on disciplinary infractions and their consequences. These data are analyzed in a state-level report developed by the Department for the Governor and the Legislature to fulfill the requirements of the "Public School Safety Law N.J.S.A."…
Descriptors: School Safety, Discipline, Public Schools, School Districts
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Vivolo-Kantor, Alana M.; Olsen, Emily O'Malley; Bacon, Sarah – Journal of School Health, 2016
Background: Teen dating violence (TDV) negatively impacts health, mental and physical well-being, and school performance. Methods: Data from a nationally representative sample of high school students participating in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s 2013 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) are used to demonstrate associations…
Descriptors: High School Students, Adolescents, Dating (Social), Violence
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Cidade, Melissa; Lessne, Deborah – National Center for Education Statistics, 2016
Data from the School Crime Supplement (SCS) to the National Crime Victimization Survey (2013), a nationally representative sample survey of students ages 12 through 18, were used to evaluate co-occurring reports of bullying and other unfavorable conditions at school. Analysis is restricted to those respondents who were enrolled in grades 6 through…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Victims, Adolescents, Bullying
Executive Office of the President, 2016
Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology have opened up new markets and new opportunities for progress in critical areas such as health, education, energy, and the environment. In recent years, machines have surpassed humans in the performance of certain specific tasks, such as some aspects of image recognition. Experts forecast that…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Federal Government, Federal Regulation, Research and Development
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Gordon, Mordechai – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2015
This essay critically examines the underlying assumptions about freedom and democracy at the basis of those like the NRA who argue that the United States does not have a gun problem and that the second amendment protects citizens' rights to own any gun they wish. Inspired by Hannah Arendt's political philosophy, the author first discusses three…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Violence, Political Attitudes, Philosophy
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Metro, Rosalie – Social Education, 2019
A textbook author reflects on the ethical and ideological choices she made in her quest to create a history book that would be relevant to demographically diverse high school students.
Descriptors: Authors, Textbook Preparation, Ideology, Ethics
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Cooper, Patricia M. – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2019
This essay addresses two types of disasters that can affect early childhood classrooms, which deserve more attention during teacher preparation. The first includes such natural phenomena as earthquakes and hurricanes, as well man-made events, such as fires and, incredibly, school shootings. They are almost always unexpected and happen in real…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Crisis Management, Natural Disasters, Weapons
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Goff, Jane – State Education Standard, 2019
On April 20, 1999, two Columbine High School students walked into their school midday and killed 12 students and one teacher. Twenty-one other students were injured. All that had been normal came to an abrupt end. Education leaders in Jefferson County, Colorado, quickly realized they were laying the groundwork for a new normal. Colorado's…
Descriptors: Homicide, Violence, School Safety, Crisis Management
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2019
Gang affiliation is not something that students leave behind when they come to school. Gang members do not leave their behaviors, attitudes, and conflicts outside the school environment. Gangs, unchecked and unidentified in a school setting, often engage in threat and intimidation; physical and cyber bullying; fighting; recruiting; and criminal…
Descriptors: Juvenile Gangs, School Safety, Behavior Problems, Aggression
Kurtz, Holly; Lloyd, Sterling; Harwin, Alex; Blomstrom, Olivia – Editorial Projects in Education, 2019
If students and teachers do not feel safe, it is difficult for learning to occur. But how safe do they really feel? And what do teachers think would improve that sense of safety? Is it another security camera, an additional active shooter drill? A social-emotional learning program? Resources for student mental health? What are schools doing now to…
Descriptors: School Safety, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Surveys, Elementary School Teachers
Steele, Joby B. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
In this quantitative study, the perceptions of safety and preparedness of Missouri's high school administrators after participating in active shooter training as mandated by Missouri's Senate Bill No. 75 were analyzed. As school shootings continue, states have passed legislation to prepare schools to provide safety for students and faculty members…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Administrator Attitudes, State Legislation, School Safety
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Hauser, Will; Kleck, Gary – Crime & Delinquency, 2013
Surveys show that more than one half of gun owners report owning their firearm for self-protection. Although research has examined the effect of fear of crime on gun ownership, the issue of reciprocity and temporal order has been largely ignored. Furthermore, the effect of firearm acquisition and relinquishment on fear has not been evaluated…
Descriptors: Fear, Ownership, Weapons, Crime
Lerner, Warren D. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In this quantitative correlational study, simulated data were employed to examine artificial-intelligence techniques or, more specifically, artificial neural networks, as they relate to the location prediction of improvised explosive devices (IEDs). An ANN model was developed to predict IED placement, based upon terrain features and objects…
Descriptors: Weapons, Prediction, Geographic Location, Artificial Intelligence
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Warnick, Bryan R.; Kim, Sang Hyun; Robinson, Shannon – Educational Theory, 2015
In the United States, targeted school shootings have become a distinct genre of violence. In this essay, Bryan Warnick, Sang Hyun Kim, and Shannon Robinson examine the social meanings that exist in American society that might contribute to this phenomenon, focusing on the question: "Why are schools conceptualized as appropriate places to…
Descriptors: Violence, School Safety, Educational Environment, Weapons
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