Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428927794
Category : Community and school
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Creating Safe and Drug-free Schools
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428927794
Category : Community and school
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Creating Safe and Drug-free Schools
Author: United States. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency PreventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community and school
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Getting Results
Author: Safe and Drug Free Schools
Author: Patricia V. NoblePublisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781590334942
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Illegal drug use is a recurrent problem across the nation, but at particular risk are the nation's youth. Studies have shown that among children, drug use begins with the abuse of legal substances (ie tobacco and alcohol) before graduating to illegal drugs, with marijuana generally the first. Along with drug abuse, violence is another danger the nation's young people must face, be it drug motivated or the result of other behavioural problems. Schools are considered prime places to head off these two threats through education about abstaining from drugs and controlling violent tendencies. In 1996, the Department of Education began overseeing the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act, which funds both state and national drug and violence prevention programs. Unfortunately, follow-up studies have revealed mixed results to the national program. The Education Department, though, is considering steps to strengthen and improve this critical program. This book examines and evaluates the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act and its programs, placing the measure in a background context and looking at its financial and administrative structures. Given the major problems of drug abuse and violence threatening to overwhelm children, these studies make for a timely analysis of an important issue.
Creating Safe Schools: School safety work book : what works : promising violence prevention programs
Author: Creating Safe and Drug-Free Schools
Author: Barry LeonardPublisher:
ISBN: 9780788186226
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Presents a set of guidelines for a continuing team process to create safe schools. Begins with action steps for schools, parents, students, and community and business groups. Next it provides info. briefs on specific issues affecting school safety. Steps include: placing school safety high on the educational agenda; involving parents and citizens; building and developing the team; conducting the school site assessment; reviewing the law; creating a safe school plan; formulating a contingency plan; creating an educational climate; searching for ways to serve students and ways students can serve; getting the message out; and evaluating the process. Also includes a 32-page report, "Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools."
Creating Safe and Drug-free Schools
Author: Creating Safe and Drug-free Schools
Author: United States. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency PreventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community and school
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Options for Restructuring the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act
Author: Peter ReuterPublisher: RAND Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Critics of the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act (SDFSCA) point to both structural and substantive failures to explain the program's ineffectiveness. Moves toward reauthorization in Congress create the opportunity to consider needed reforms. Reform options should target those students most in need, ensure effective implementation, promote evaluation, require accountability, improve program capacity, and constrain administrative costs. Chapter 1, "Introduction," reviews the societal and legislative trends culminating in passage of the SDFSCA. Chapter 2, "Assessment," critically examines the program, reviewing such weaknesses as stagnant budgets, poor distribution of funds, vague goals, and a lack of coordination with other programs. Recent changes and new guidelines have begun to improve program effectiveness. Chapter 3, "Changing the Program," offers criteria to use in evaluating proposed reforms and considers a recent Clinton-era reform effort. Chapter 4, "Conclusion and Recommendations," suggests that combining drug prevention and antiviolence efforts under one program should be reconsidered. Specific recommendations for reforms include changing the within-state allocation formula to better reflect district capacities, replacing formula with direct federal grants, and creating requirements for local and state efforts. Any effective reform will require that the federal government stimulate greater local capacity and authority. (Contains 18 references.) (TEJ)
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