Since June 1999, the US Department of Education and the US Secret Service have been
working as a team to try to better understand--and ultimately help prevent--school shootings …

Joint message from the Secretary, US Department of Education, and from the Director, US
Secret Service Since June 1999, the US Department of Education and the US Secret …

The vast majority of the nation's students will complete their schooling without ever being
touched by school shootings. Nevertheless, some high-profile school attacks carried out by …

An increasing fear over violence in schools has prompted recent requests for psychologists,
educators, and law enforcement professionals to assist in preventing future incidents of …

This document takes the findings from the Safe School Initiative study and sets forth a
process for identifying, assessing, and managing students who may pose a threat of …

The Safe School Initiative was implemented through the Secret Service's National Threat
Assessment Center and the Department of Education's Safe and Drug-Free Schools …

Research Summary This paper describes the immense difficulty of predicting that someone
is going to carry out a school shooting and then turns to threat assessment as a more …

This article provides a brief history of the development of the federal model of school threat
assessment, which was created by the US Secret Service and US Department of Education …

Although schools have a relatively low rate of violent crime in comparison to other settings,
concerns about school shootings have stimulated increased school security and use of zero …

Every time a high profile act of violence occurs at school, attention turns to the prevention of
school violence. School violence affected 37 communities across the United States between …