Reductions in long-term suspensions following adoption of the virginia student threat assessment guidelines

NASSP Bulletin

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 175-194

  Cornell, Dewey G ^a   Gregory, Anne ^b   Fan, Xitao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

high school; school discipline; threat assessment; violence prevention

Indexed keywords

EID: 81455136800     PISSN: 01926365     EISSN: 19301405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0192636511415255     Document Type: Article

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