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Making classrooms, cafeterias and other spaces less crowded will be essential. There are two main ways to do that.
Newly-released body camera footage shows an Orlando police officer taking a 6-year-old girl away in handcuffs. A school safety expert explains the potential pitfalls of police in primary schools.
Overcrowding can have severe negative consequences for the education and safety of learners.
Teachers unions and gun-control advocates who decry the use of fake blood and simulated shootings have cause for concern. But getting students ready does take training and practice.
From being subjected to harassment and threats to getting assaulted or having their cars keyed, many American teachers are being victimized.
Asian students were bullied and excluded during the SARS outbreak. Here’s how we can get schools to help prevent that happening again.
When school resource officers run afoul of the law, more often than not the reason is sexual misconduct with students, research shows.
Being ready takes training and practice. But it might not require fake blood and simulated shootings.
Efforts to ‘harden’ school buildings could distract from the need to focus on human behavior and what’s known about school shooters.
About one-third of America’s primary schools have a school police officer on hand. Do these officers make schools safer, or are they turning primary schools into mini police precincts?
Zero tolerance policies in America’s schools are declining, but you might not be able to tell since so many practices get lumped under the ‘zero tolerance’ label, a school discipline expert says.
School shooters typically show warning signs long before they become killers, but educators are sometimes ill-equipped to act on what they see, two researchers who are analyzing mass shooters say.
Although new evidence shows mixed results for “restorative justice” practices, that’s no reason for schools to stop looking for alternatives to school suspensions, a school safety scholar argues.
While school suspensions are meant to deter violence and other troublesome behavior, some students see being suspended as something that makes them more popular and tough, a researcher has found.
The Parkland school shooting not only spurred unprecedented national protests for gun control – it also prompted debates about the best ways to keep students safe.
Following a fatal beating of a student, Chicago started a Safe Passage program in 2009 to ensure students get to and from school safely. Nine years on, how is it working?
As a federal school safety commission searches for ways to lessen school violence, a psychology professor advises the commission that focusing on violence in entertainment media is a waste of time.
After Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said a school safety commission won’t focus on guns, a school safety scholar says the commission may miss an important part of the discussion.
While many school shooters suffered peer rejection of some sort, research doesn’t support the idea that peer rejection is the culprit behind shootings, a scholar argues.
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Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy, University of Florida
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Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Sciences, Illinois State University
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Metropolitan State University
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Hamline University
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Professor of Sociology & Criminal Justice, University of Delaware
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Ph.D. student in Criminal Justice and Creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, University of Central Florida
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Professor Gender and Childhood Sexuality, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, State University of New York Oswego
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Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Connecticut
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Professor of School Psychology, University of South Florida
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Professor of Education, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor of Psychology, Stetson University
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Stefan A. Riesenfeld Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
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Professor of Educational Psychology and Quantitative Research, Evaluation, and Measurement, The Ohio State University
