Is Universal Assessment of Students a Realistic Solution to the Prevention of School Violence?
Viewpoint: Yes, to prevent school shootings, which have become a threat to the public health, school psyc...
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A SCHOOL SHOULD BE a safe place, and, historically, schools in the United States have been relatively safe. Over the past decade, however, many people have begun to question the safety of American sch...
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IN DECEMBER 1997, a fourteen-year-old boy shot and killed three teenagers and wounded five others at Heath High School in West Paducah, Kentucky. In April 1999, two teenage students in Littleton, Colo...
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People have always been drawn to spectacles of violence. As Sissela Bok points out in her book Mayhem: Violence as Public Entertainment, the ancient Romans forced slaves and convicts to fight wild ani...
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Crime and Schools: The inside look of what's going on
As a society, how should we respond to violence taking place at schools? How do we respond to the traumatic events of the Columbine shooting and ...
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December 1, 1997, Michael Carneal, a freshman in West Paducah, Kentucky opened fire on his classmates, killing three and wounding five. One year later, on March 5, 1998, Mitchell Woodward shot and k...
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It is sad that kids today have to go to school in fear, let alone don't even want to go in the first place. School should be a boring place for kids can safely go and learn what they need to learn to...
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In 1884, a man by the name of Paul Nipkow invented a device called the scanning disk. Little did Nipkow know that years later his invention would be transformed into one of the most popular pastim...
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Violence in schools is a big issue in schools these days. There is everything from racism to fights, and this should not be tolerated. The schools should do something about this issue to make t...
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Violence is a very important issue that is coming to the front in today's school systems. School violence is a `complex social policy problem' and is considered very complicated and hard to define. My...
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School Safety
An issue that our nation is very concerned about would have to be school safety. School safety has dramatically risen in the past couple years. In 1974, Congress mandated that the U. S...
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