1st Edition

Ensuring Safe School Environments Exploring Issues--seeking Solutions

Edited By Mary Susan Fishbaugh, Gwen Schroth Copyright 2003
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Ensuring Safe School Environments: Exploring Issues--Seeking Solutions presents research findings and information about school violence, with a focus on strategies for increasing school safety. Based on a special topical issue of Rural Special Education Quarterly , the original journal articles have been rewritten to address safe schools from the perspective of suburban and urban, as well as... Read more
Contents: L.W. Hughes, Series Editor Foreword. Preface. Part I:Exploring Issues. S. Poland, Congressional Testimony: School Violence From the Perspective of a National Crisis Response Consultant. G. Schroth, A. Pankake, H. Fullwood, G. Gates, A Comparison of Urban and Rural Conditions and Their Relationship to School Violence. C. Kneese, H. Fullwood, G. Schroth, A. Pankake, Decreasing School Violence: A Research Synthesis. E.H. Seifert, Violence and School Principals. Part II:Seeking Solutions. K. Kelker, Resolving Conflicts in Schools: An Educational Approach to Violence Prevention. B.J. Ayres, D.L. Hedeen, Creating Positive Behavior Support Plans for Students With Significant Behavioral Challenges. L. Taylor, H.S. Adelman, School-Community Relations: Policy and Practice. L. Thurston, T.R. Berkeley, Peaceable School Communities: Morality and the Ethic of Care. M.S.E. Fishbaugh, J. Furshong, The Montana Behavioral Initiative: A Statewide Response to Issues of School Violence. Appendix.

Biography

Mary Susan Fishbaugh, Gwen Schroth, Terry R. Berkeley

"Presenting both research and practice, the text can be a guide for practicing school adminstrators in their search for ways to insure the safety and well being of the students whom they serve, as well as a resource for individuals in other community-based human service agencies who deal with school violence."
Adolescence

"The authors have done a commendable job of framing a current social problem within the context of the educational setting....The book fills a definite need! I know of no other text currently available that brings the issue together as well as this [one]."
Cynthia J. Norris
University of Tennessee

"The book serves as a warning to the spread of violence and as a source of information on responses to violence....[It] will have definite appeal to individuals who are looking for a general treatment of violence in schools. The book is written by and for educators."
Frederick C. Wendel
University of Nebraska-Lincoln