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  • How can schools detect potentially violent students? Researchers have an answer.

    Laura Meckler Hannah Natanson

    December 09, 2021 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    Using tactics developed by the U.S. Secret Service to protect the life of the president, Virginia pioneered an approach to assessing threats of possible mass shootings in schools that has been adopted by an estimated half of all secondary schools in the U.S., and mandated by 11 states. Studies have shown its effectiveness, though it's difficult to know when something didn't occur because of a particular intervention. Multidisciplinary teams of school administrators, police, and mental health professionals follow a protocol for determining which troubling signs are evidence of a real threat.

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  • A mock funeral aims to help students bury their pain

    Laura Meckler

    May 15, 2019 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    To combat emotional distress that many students are facing, schools across the nation are implementing mock funerals, allowing students to figuratively "bury their pain." Although issues at focus range from drunk driving, to poor test scores to peer violence, the overarching goal is to make sure that students feel that they're being heard by the adults that surround them.

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