Executive Summary Foreword Acknowledgments Violent Deaths at School Nonfatal Student Victimization-Student Reports Violence and Crime at School-Public School Principal/ Disciplinarian Reports Nonfatal Teacher Victimization at School-Teacher Reports School Environment Figures Full Report (PDF) (PDF - 1152 KB)
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The authors wish to thank the heads of their respective agencies, Gary W. Phillips of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and Lawrence Greenfeld of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), for supporting this report. From BJS, we wish to thank Callie Rennison of the Victimization Statistics Branch for her work in verifying data from the NCVS. From NCES, we wish to thank Bruce Taylor, Shelley Burns, Kathryn Chandler, and Ghedam Bairu, who served as reviewers. The Office of the Deputy Secretary conducted an agency review as well. They all provided input that substantially improved the publication. Outside of NCES and BJS, Mark Anderson and Steve James of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention generously provided data and performed reviews of data documentation. In addition, school crime experts who reviewed the report were Wayne Welsh of Temple University and Richard Lawrence of St. Cloud State University. Margaret Burchinal of the University of North Carolina also provided valuable input. Their advice was gratefully accepted. We particularly appreciated their willingness to review the report under very strict time constraints. We also value the review of this report and the continued support provided by Bill Modzeleski of the Safe and Drug-free Schools program. Without the assistance of the following staff at MPR Associates, this report could not have been produced: Barbara Kridl (overall production), Francesca Tussing (production, proofreading, layout, and editing), and Andrea Livingston (editing). They provided invaluable editorial, graphic, and production assistance. |