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Articles on School Safety (Learning Network)

Provides over a dozen articles to help parents with school safety issues. 5-01

Assessing Threat - School Violence (CNN - Slobogin)

Provides a summary of the results of a study by the U.S. Secret Service to determine how to assess the level of threat of violence in schools. 3-01

Assessing Threat - School Violence (U.S. Secret Service)

Provides results of a study to determine how to assess the level of threat of violence in schools. (Uses PDF format.) 3-01

Communicating About School Safety (Washington State School Directors' Association)

Provides guidelines, suggestions, and examples for school administrators to use in communicating policies and procedures related to school violence and safety. 5-01

Strategies for School Safety (Learning Network)

Provides 41 suggestions from parents to improve school safety and reduce violence. 5-01

Strategies for School Safety (U.S. Department of Education)

Provides a report from 1998 on how to make schools safer. Discusses The Nature and Scope of School Violence, including A National Perspective, Public School Policies and Practices Related to School Safety, and A State and Local Perspective. A second chapter on What Communities Can Do Through Collaboration includes What Communities Can Do, What Schools Can Do, What Students Can Do, What Parents Can Do, What Police and Juvenile Justice Authorities Can Do, What Businesses Can Do, and What Elected Officials and Government Agencies Can Do. A third chapter presents Model Programs related to problems of Aggression and Fighting, Bullying, Family Issues, Gangs, Racial and Other Bias-Related Conflict, Sexual Harassment and Sexual Violence, Substance Abuse, Truancy and Dropouts, Vandalism, and Weapons. 7-01

Student Behavior and School Violence (Middle School)

Provides a comprehensive guide for teachers. 8-01