Sentences with phrase «most school violence»

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Survivors, students, and parents of victims of past school shootings — including the most recent massacre in Parkland, Florida, where a gunman murdered 17 — gathered at the White House to share their stories and ideas for protecting students from gun violence.

The march marked most dramatic and powerful show yet of teenage activism against gun violence in the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

Republicans and Democrats Agree Arming Teachers don't make schools safer TALLAHASSEE — Less than two weeks after the Parkland shooting, Florida Republicans are playing politics with public safety and embracing one of Donald Trump's most widely derided proposals to reduce gun violence.

Most of us have never gone to school in a place where gun violence was not normalized, and that is not okay.

David Garcia, a former gang member who now Ministers at the House of Worship Christian Center, believes that troubled kids will be the ones most hurt by the ban: «In schools there's a lot of violence going on.

The attack was Pakistan's deadliest overall «since the December 2014 massacre at an army - run school that left 143 people dead, most of them children, and marked a devastating new turn in militant violence against Pakistani civilians,» reports the Los Angeles Times.

While many schools have gone to great lengths to prevent another Columbine from happening in their own communities, most Americans don't place the blame for school violence on school officials or on a lack of security.

An associate dean at Vanderbilt Divinity School, he draws from more than five hundred documents (mostly sermons, and mostly from New England) to show which parts of the Bible proved most instrumental in justifying resistance, rallying troops, and reconciling earthly violence with spiritual warfare.

He was poor, like most kids at the school, and the violence was a part of his everyday life.

Most American schools today operate according to a philosophy of discipline that has its roots in the 1980s and 1990s, when a belief that schools would be safer and more effective if they allowed for «zero tolerance» of violence, drug use, and other misbehavior led to a sharp rise in school suspensions.

She was a hairdresser who owned her own salon, called Gifted Hanz, on the South Side of Chicago, and she worked part - time as a mentor for a group called Youth Advocate Programs, which had been hired by the Chicago schools department to provide intensive mentoring services to students who had been identified as being most at risk of committing or being a victim of gun violence.

Administrators say Lehman, one of the city's most troubled high school buildings, experienced a spike in violence after Mayor Bill de Blasio lifted the cellphone ban in schools last year.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie also weighed in on the fatal incident saying, «Gun violence continues to plague communities across the nation and that it has found its way into workplaces, schools and hospitals, where the most vulnerable among us should feel safe, is reprehensible.»

Ms. González, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., has emerged as one of the most prominent faces among the student activists who have mobilized against gun violence after a shooting at their school last month that left 17School in Parkland, Fla., has emerged as one of the most prominent faces among the student activists who have mobilized against gun violence after a shooting at their school last month that left 17school last month that left 17 dead.

«Most people with mental illness are not violent toward others and most violence is not caused by mental illness, but you would never know that by looking at media coverage of incidents,» says study leader Emma E. «Beth» McGinty, PhD, MS, an assistant professor in the departments of Health Policy and Management and Mental Health at the Bloomberg SchMost people with mental illness are not violent toward others and most violence is not caused by mental illness, but you would never know that by looking at media coverage of incidents,» says study leader Emma E. «Beth» McGinty, PhD, MS, an assistant professor in the departments of Health Policy and Management and Mental Health at the Bloomberg Schmost violence is not caused by mental illness, but you would never know that by looking at media coverage of incidents,» says study leader Emma E. «Beth» McGinty, PhD, MS, an assistant professor in the departments of Health Policy and Management and Mental Health at the Bloomberg School.

«One of our most important findings is the lack of high - quality research on this topic, especially in relation to the major health impact gun violence has had in this country,» says co - author Eric Fleegler, MD, MPH, also of Boston Children's Division of Emergency Medicine and Harvard Medical School.

He says he spent most of his time playing tennis and basketball and trying to avoid the violence and tensions in his racially charged high school.

Scientific American spoke with Garen Wintemute, director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis, Medical Center, and Daniel Webster, director of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Gun Policy and Research, about four feasible legal and policy changes that would be most effective.

A large majority of Americans — including gun owners — continue to support stronger policies to prevent gun violence than are present in current federal and most state law, according to a new national public opinion survey conducted by researchers with the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Interestingly Death Wish, the millennial - era remake of the gritty mid 70's crime thriller of the same name, notoriously arrives in theaters at an increasingly awkward moment in a divisive national climate (particularly in the aftermath of the most recent high school shooting) where the political stakes regarding gun violence in America are at an all - time high.

A bromance, a coming of age story and the most potent, well - observed and human take on school violence I have ever seen, Johnson's festival darling is the movie of our moment.

The most extreme claim in the essay, among many, is that «the effect of vouchers on student achievement is larger than the following in - school factors: exposure to violent crime at school...» Yep, you read that correctly: selecting a private school for your child is as damaging to them as witnessing school violence.

Some of the most popular games played in our schools today involve sexual violence, which is very worrying material for children to be exposed to.

With the rare exception of the parent who attempted to totally shelter her children, in most cases it is not the schools that are exposing young people to the hate and violence in the world.

In Principal magazine, elementary principal, now retired, James Dillon writes that in bullying prevention trainings, he asks participants to choose the one group they believe is most responsible for addressing school violence and bullying: parents, students, school, or community.

The lack of financial support for public schools topped the list of the most serious problems facing public schools today, edging out school violence and discipline concerns.

For example in the United States, Pinellas County (Florida) school district found as far back as the late 1990s that the presence of surveillance cameras was a sufficient deterrent to considerably reduce most of the violence and defacement that had overwhelmed district schools in the past.

One of the most widely documented forms of violence in schools is bullying.

Most of the remainder involve claims of racial discrimination, complaints about the quality of instruction provided English language learners, claims that schools have not provided female students with equal athletic opportunity, and charges that schools have not dealt adequately with sexual violence and other forms of sexual harassment.

While pupil mental health was the most prevalent health and safeguarding concern for school leaders in both 2015 and 2016 when asked about a range of issues, worry over domestic violence, drugs and sexting also increased over this period.

Despite violence being an issue that stems well beyond schools, schools can make a significant impact in addressing even the most basic aggression, one that will ultimately benefit all students in the long run.

While police officers may at times play a role in responding to school violence — as a school officer did in Maryland last Tuesday — stationing permanent armed officers on campuses comes with significant negative consequences and is also not the most effective way to prevent school violence.

20 The DCL further contained the most thorough details to date of schools» specific obligations to combat gender - based violence and harassment.21 With the issuance of this letter, OCR signaled that the government would initiate a more aggressive enforcement policy to hold schools accountable for Title IX violations.

After years of «fix - it» programs focused on reducing student violence, conflict, drug and alcohol use, absenteeism, poor achievement, etc., educators and parents now agree, creating a positive school or classroom environment is the most effective way to improve behavior and learning.

If you thought that «bullies, playground predators, or school violence» were the most dangerous things school children face, you are, according to the Family Research Council, missing the «spreading, hidden nightmare facing» millions of students as they start a new school year.

The school day was lengthened by an hour, classes were restructured, teachers were given a period every day to plan and collaborate, and counseling was provided to students, most of whom had experienced gun violence, homelessness or addiction.

When this verbal harassment is not addressed at the middle grades level, it most often escalates to physical violence at the high school level.

While most high school students are too young to vote, they intend to make their voice heard by sending a strong message to politicians that the time to act to prevent school violence is now.

Most importantly, the social climate in class and in school is assumed to have a significant effect on the prevalence of violence in schools.

In most cases schools had put those programs in place as part of a «war on...» a particular problem, such as reducing dropouts, substance abuse, unwanted teen pregnancies, or school violence.

Especially when most of those schools are underfunded and dealing with serious issues such as poverty, violence, and apathy.

As games like move towards becoming more of an art form and therefore (slightly) more responsible in their depiction of violence and its consequences, with superb titles like Heavy Rain and yes Grand Theft Auto 5 (a properly grown up game for most part), it takes an old school title like this to remind you quite how much fun and cathartic virtually blowing people into chunks of a grue can be.

Researchers reported that by far the most common type of violence - related school injuries were cuts and bruises.

The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School senior, David Hogg, has become one of the most outspoken advocates against gun violence in the wake of the massacre that killed 17.

In a 2003 paper in the American Psychologist, Maury Nation and colleagues identified a set of characteristics that were associated with the most effective prevention programs in the areas of substance abuse, risky sexual behavior, delinquency and violence, and school failure.114 John Borkowski, Leann Smith, and Carol Akai subsequently summarized the key themes of the Nation paper and identified a set of ten principles of effective prevention programs.

The report, compiled by HRSA and ACF, documents improvements by most states in the six MIECHV benchmark areas: maternal and child health (81 % of states), prevention of abuse and neglect (66 %), school readiness (85 %), reduction in crime or domestic violence (70 %), family economic self - sufficiency (85 %), and coordination of community resources and supports (85 %).

In the early 1990s researchers investigating the best ways to encourage positive behaviors like active citizenship and service - learning and to prevent high - risk behaviors like violence, bullying, unwanted pregnancies, and drug abuse came to realize that students benefited the most when positive youth development programs and strategies are coordinated and integrated at the school and district levels.

Most evaluated school - based violence prevention programs have been models or demonstrations that were evaluated for efficacy only; their real - world effectiveness is largely unknown (Wilson et al. 2003; Wilson and Lipsey 2007).

In describing DV as «a dynamic between parents» (p. 8), and making statements such as when «parents are entangled in an abusive relationship» (p. 12), «when there is violence at home» (p. 8), and «violence or abuse in the parents» relationship» (p. 9), rather than discussing abusers who batter their partners, most mental health professionals doing custody evaluations, mediation or otherwise involved in custody disputes, who have been schooled in the family systems dynamic, will continue to see the problem as involving the dysfunction of both parents.

And most psychologists have leaned toward specialization in their own past practices, which also discounts their «expertise» as a know - everything generalist and means that for the most part they are little better than laypersons — a few courses in graduate school do not an expert make in substance abuse, domestic violence, parenting capacity (or even what constitutes «good parenting»), child sex abuse, family systems, psychometric testing, infant attachment, personality disorders, child development, breastfeeding, sibling relationships, child education, medical decision - making, communications, marital relations, and so forth.