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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...

In February another sadly familiar school shooting took place, this time at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Three School of Education and Human Development faculty members, whose research points to effective ways to make schools safe environments where students can thrive, have spoken up about what we can do moving forward.

Growing coalition of national education organizations sign onto eight-point violence prevention plan.

In the wake of the mass murder at a Florida high school, some suggest training and arming teachers with firearms will deter attacks. UVA associate professor Patricia Jennings, an expert in teacher stress, shares her views.