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Schools are adopting threat assessment teams at a rapid pace. Professor Dewey Cornell wants to make sure they are effective.

School safety expert Dewey Cornell explains why behavioral threat assessment is an effective strategy to help prevent acts of violence in schools.

Bradshaw was among 14 leading scholars elected to the academy in 2024 for outstanding scholarship or leadership related to education.

The toolkit provides practical guidance for training, implementing and evaluating school threat assessment teams.

Professor Rachel Wahl's class on dialogue is highlighted in this UVA Today story about students' high levels of comfort expressing their views in UVA classes.

Recent legislation passed in Utah will now require schools to use threat assessment guidelines developed by Professor Dewey Cornell.

Professors Dewey Cornell and Catherine Bradshaw are leading an effort to update an evidence-based 8-point plan aimed at reducing gun violence in America.

While most Virginia 9th through 12th grade students and staff agree that school resource officers make them feel safer, students answered both that question and others differently by racial and ethnic group.

New research from the Curry School of Education and Human Development says “yes and no.”

Amid the release earlier this spring of the Government Accountability Report and the Trump administration’s decision to revoke Obama-era guidelines around school discipline, there is national concern...