Background and Overview. The impact of truancy on the nation's educational system are staggering because it transcends the immediate school setting and assumes lifelong implications for many of the young people that take part in this behaviors. Indeed, more than one million of the two million...

Safe Schools, Safe Students: A Guide to Violence Prevention Strategies Violence in schools affects teachers and students. It is brought into classrooms because it exists in society, in the home, and in entertainment. There are many reasons why violence has come to li...

Violence in society is more prevalent today than ever before. Media and entertainment have opened up violent images for children to see. Availability of weapons to school age children seems incredulous. News stories of elementary school children bringing guns to school and killing classmates are s...

"At 11:19 am on April 20, 1999, two armed young men stormed Columbine High School, wounding twenty eight people and killing fifteen, before taking their own lives" (Juvenile Violence Time Line). This is a scene that has been played out too many times in our schools. School violence i...

"We have to send a message that we're serious about no guns and drugs," says Michael Resnick, associate executive director for advocacy and issues management at the National School Boards Association (NSBA). "We can't be fuzzy around the edges about that message." (Koch 2000, pg. 2) But how se...

In "The Role of Woman's Explanations for Refusal on Men's Ability to Discriminate Unwanted Sexual Behavior in a Date Rape Scenario," Victoria Van Wie and Alan Gross indicate that approximately 15% of college women have been forced into sexual intercourse by a date. They advocate...

Drug Testing in Schools According to a study conducted by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, among the graduating class of 1997, 54.3 percent of students had used an illicit drug by the time they reached their senior year of high school; a dramatic increase from 40.7 percen...