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Research suggest that certain gun control policies have an impact on rates of gun violence in schools. For example, Anderson and Sabia find that Child-Access-Prevention (CAP) laws decrease the rate of students bringing weapons to school (by about 18.5%) and the rate of students being threatened with weapons at school (by 19%). [26]
According to the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics, school violence is a serious problem. [1] [2] In 2007, the latest year for which comprehensive data were available, a nationwide survey, [3] conducted biennially by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and involving representative samples of U.S. high school students, found that 5.9% of students carried a weapon (e ...
At a recent School Committee meeting, BHS Interim Principal Jose Duarte estimated that between 100 and 200 students out of Brockton High's roughly 3,600 student population are causing chaos.
Less than a week after Northern Illinois University solemnly marked the second anniversary of a mass shooting on campus that claimed the lives of five students, the DeKalb school was the scene of further gun violence. 24-year-old NIU student, Brian Mulder, refused entry to 22-year-old Zachary R. Isaacman, when he had tried to follow a female ...
PEN America, a free speech advocacy group, found that book bans nearly tripled during the 2023-2024 academic year with over 10,000 books banned in public schools.
More than 3,000 students in the Fresno Unified School District were born outside of the United States, according to Carlos Castillo, the district’s chief of diversity, equity and inclusion.
School violence includes violence between school students as well as attacks by students on school staff and attacks by school staff on students. It encompasses physical violence , including student-on-student fighting , corporal punishment ; psychological violence such as verbal abuse , and sexual violence , including rape and sexual harassment .
Violence and bullying in schools violate the rights of children and adolescents, including their right to education and health. Studies show that school violence and bullying harm the academic performance, physical and mental health, and emotional well-being of those who are victimized. [2] It also has a detrimental effect on perpetrators and ...