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KUDOS
Connecticut SAVE students send visual message about violence in schools
Members of a North Haven, Conn. chapter of Students Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE) placed purple and orange Post-it notes on every locker. Every fourth locker got a purple Post-it to show that one in four students nationwide is the victim of violence in school. To read this article visit:
Web site for the SAVE organization:
http://www.nationalsave.org/main/events.php
Teens build bridges to respectful discussions
Some 370 students from more than a dozen Portland-area high schools converged to discuss issues about race, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, gender, religion, family and mental and physical disabilities. The student-led diversity conference, "From Words to Action," allowed students from conservative environments the opportunity to openly discuss issues that parents and school boards may find controversial and districts shy away from addressing.
Juvenile Violent-Crime Rate Reaches Lowest Level in Decade
The arrest rate of juveniles charged with violent crimes has dropped to its lowest level since 1983, the Criminal Justice Newsletter reported Jan. 16.
Self-esteem: A parent's best gift to a child
Children who possess self-esteem value themselves and thus have confidence in their ability to handle life's changes, experts say.
Conflict Resolution Found to Curb Violence
In a study published in the April issue of Children and Schools, a journal from the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), author Debra Woody, LMSW-ACP, Ph.D. and Assistant Professor at University of Texas at Arlington, explains that conflict resolution curbs less extreme acts of violence.
Upcoming conference on conflict resolution:
National Conference on Conflict Resolution in Education, May 5-8, 2004, Columbus, OH
SCHOOL VIOLENCE NEWS
12-year-old girl stabbed on school bus
A 12-year-old girl was recovering Thursday after being stabbed seven times while riding a school bus, apparently by a teenage girl who randomly chose her as someone to try and kill, a law enforcement officer said.
One killed, one injured at D.C. high school
One student was killed and another wounded in a shooting at a high school in the nation's capital, city and school officials said.
DC School Safety Plan Readied
Metropolitan Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey is expected to present a school safety plan to Mayor Anthony A. Williams. The guidelines will address concerns raised by the fatal shooting of a student at Ballou High School in Southeast on Feb. 2.
California County responding to school shooting incident
A domestic shooting outside a Bay area elementary school is raising serious safety concerns.
An Educator Says 'Instinct' Helped Halt New York School Shooting
An assistant principal at a suburban high school near Albany said on Friday that instinct and "just doing my job" enabled him to subdue a 16-year-old student who wounded a teacher and fired at classmates with a shotgun on Monday.
Additional Web site for more information on school violence:
Upcoming conferences on school violence:
- Campus Safety Training Conference, April 19-20, 2004 at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare in Rosemont (Chicago) Illinois. Visit www.campusjournal.com for more information.
- Persistently Safe Schools: The National Conference of the Hamilton Fish Institute on School and Community Violence October 27-29, 2004, at the Wyndham Hotel in Washington, D.C. For more information, visit http://www.hamfish.org/conference.
INTERNATIONAL SCENE
Thai Schools Under Armed Guard
The death toll from a wave of violence in south Thailand has risen to 42. Troops have been drafted in to guard schools.
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BUILDING COLLABORATIONS
Uniting to cut down on violence
As Philadelphia searches for ways to channel outrage over recent crimes into action aimed at preventing them, collaboration must be part of the strategy.
Anti-violence alliance forms
For about a year, a group of 25 agencies, along with community representatives, have been organizing the Northwest Suburban Alliance on Domestic Violence.
POLICY ISSUES
Camera Phones Raise Whole New Set of Privacy Issues
Whether they are reacting to a troubling incident or simply trying to prevent problems before they happen, schools are grappling with how to address the increasing use of camera phones by students.
Bolstering school security cannot close all gaps experts say
Calls for metal detectors, security cameras and more police flew through the crowd while they waited to retrieve their sons and daughters from the school, where a 14-year-old student had been stabbed to death.
California school district to consider dress code
East Side Union High School District Superintendent Esperanza Zendejas said Thursday that she will recommend the school board adopt a “common dress'” policy at all of its campuses to counter growing gang violence.
School policies differ when it comes to parent notification
Some Pennsylvania parents were angered that a middle school waited a day to inform them that a student brought a gun to school. According to the Associated Press, no law requires schools to release information about such episodes, and state and federal regulations limit what schools can say about students, said Emily Leader, the deputy chief counsel for the Pennsylvania School Boards Association.
Upcoming conferences on gangs:
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Know Gangs hosts Milwaukee’s first gang conference March 25-26, 2004 at the Wyndham Hotel in downtown Milwaukee, Wisc. For more information, visit www.knowgangs.com.
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