Topic - School Violence

This page summarizes Government Innovators Network content about School Violence.

This section charts recent developments in stemming school violence. Topics include at-risk youth programs, character education, drug prevention, teen dating violence prevention, bullying and gang prevention, and teen dating violence prevention. Efforts to form cross-disciplinary partnerships between schools and other entities to curb this problem are also explored.

moreRelated Awards

Student Conflict Resolution Experts (26%)
Innovations in American Government Awards
January 10, 2005

State Program for the Prevention and Combat of Violence against Women (24%)
The Public Management and Citizenship Program in Brazil
May 18, 2005

AIDS Discrimination Division (23%)
Innovations in American Government Awards
1990

Alternative Sentencing Program (23%)
Honoring Contributions in the Governance of American Indian Nations in the United States

moreMost Relevant News

Program Seeks School Violence Tips From Students (100%)
WCBS-TV (New York)
October 21, 2009

Program helps battle violence in Milwaukee schools (94%)
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Wisconsin)
January 14, 2009

Do violence-prevention programs work? University of Chicago study hopes to find out (86%)
Chicago Tribune
November 18, 2009

Focus in Chicago: Students at Risk of Violence (76%)
NYT > Most E-Mailed
October 7, 2009

State arts school fights to survive; A "national model" could have its funding slashed and face a downsized future as a charter school. (64%)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
February 2, 2009

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moreMost Relevant Documents

Deadly Lessons: Understanding Lethal School Violence (100%)
Mark H. Moore, Carol V. Petrie, Anthony A. Braga, Brenda L. McLaughlin, editors
The National Academies Press
2003

Case Studies on Innovations in Service Delivery in Indonesia (85%)
Research and Editorial Team (see each case for specific researchers, authors, and editors)
The World Bank - Indonesia and the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, in collaboration with the Ford Foundation International Innovations Liaison Group
March 3, 2006

Taking Risks and Playing it Safe: A New Portrait of Teens Today (83%)
Urban Institute
June 6, 2000

Community Policing: Would You Know It If You Saw It? (73%)
Francis X. Hartmann, Lee Brown, Darrel Stephens
Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, John F. Kennedy School of Government
1988

Dynamics of Diffusion: Conceptions of American Federalism and Public-Sector Innovation (51%)
John D. Donahue
Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
March 11, 2005

Community Defenders in the 21st Century: Building on a Tradition of Problem-Solving for Clients, Families and Needy Communities (28%)
Cait Clarke
U.S. Department of Justice
January 1, 2001

Getting School-Based After-School Programming Off the Ground (25%)
Jean Baldwin Grossman, Karen Walker, and Rebecaa Raley
Wiener Center for Social Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government
May 1, 2001

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