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Topic Hotlist / Research Assignment
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evaluation rubric ·
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teacher's guide
Introduction
Use the links below to explore the topic, your interests, and important questions your have. The Web will offer some unique resources that might not be available anywhere else so dig deep and see what you find. If you want some idea of what good exploring looks like, read the evaluation rubric. Don't forget than many other references and resources are available from libraries, media outlets, and in-person interviews.
General Resources
- CNN In-Depth Special: Are U.S. Schools Safe?
- a mega site after the Columbine Shooting
- News Reports on School Violence
- Compiled by Yahooligans
- About School Violence
- a listing of perspectives from About.com
- Stopping the Violence: An Upfront Online Special Report
- from the New York Times news magazine for teens
- Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
- from Human Rights Watch
- The History Place
- Child Labor in America 1908 - 1912
- Immaculata High School's Child Slave Labor News
- from the senior U.S. History II Honors class, taught by Miss Joann Fantina.
Shootings & Incidences
- School shootings have high profile but occur infrequently
- from CNN
- Columbine High School - One Year Anniversary
- RealAudio file - NPR's Mark Roberts reports on the impact the Columbine High School shooting
- School Shooting in Santee - March 5, 2001
- RealAudio File - NPR's Robert Siegel reports on a school shooting in Santee, Calif.
- Preventing School Violence - March 04, 2000
- RealAudio file - NPR report on a school district that claims to be one of the more proactive districts in the country
- First-grader shot dead by classmate in Michigan school
- from CNN
- Oklahoma Boy, 13, doesn't know why he shot classmates
- from CNN - December 6, 1999
- School Shootings - Interactive Map
- Excellent quick overview from CNN
- Georgia teen to be tried as adult in school shootings
- from CNN
- 'Mental breakdown' defense hinted in Georgia school shooting
- from CNN
- The Aftermath of the Columbine shooting
- from NewsHour
- A Deadly Trend?
- three experts address this question on NewsHour
- What's your reaction to the school shootings?
- from Cross Country Checkup - CBC RadioOne, Canada
- Colorado Shooting - A photo Journal
- from the Washington Post
- Sage, Ink Cartoon - Duck and Cover
- by Sage Stossel of the Atlantic Monthly on School violence
- Was Columbine The Trigger?
- The Injured - Columbine Massacre
- support & info on assistance funds
- Picture Moments - Columbine Remembered
- images from various sources
- Editorial Cartoons about School Shootings
- by all of the top cartoonists updated regularly
- 3 Forsyth children arrested in plot to shoot third-grade classmate
- from the Billings Gazette
Media & Cultural Influences
- Growing Up Scared
- from the Atlantic Monthly
- Violence on Television
- What do Children Learn? What Can Parents Do?
- The Man who Counts the Killings
- about George Gerbner, anti-fascist
- A Symbiosis of Sorts: School Violence and the Media
- from Choices Briefs
- Children and TV Violence
- from The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- James Brown's got a brand new bag: School violence
- from CNN
- How Television Images Affect Children
- by Ron Kaufman of Kill Your Television
- Violent Video Games Can Increase Aggression
- APA News Release - April 23, 2000
- Video Games and Children
- ERIC - Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education
- Virtual Violence
- from ABC News.com
- Video games 'increase aggression'
- from BBC News
- 3D Realms Site: Wolfenstein 3D
- Doom II - Killer Games
- from id Software
- The Realm of Mortal Kombat
- from Jeff Greeson of Hotweird.com
- Advertizing on Pojo.com
- reaching teenagers thru ads
- Reflections on the events of September 11
- Scott Simon, host of National Public Radio's Weekend Edition.
Bullying, Gangs & Youth Violence
- Checklist of characteristics
- regarding youth who have caused school-associated violent deaths
- Youth Violence
- ERIC Clearinghouse
- The Choices Initiative - CHOICES Briefs
- Seven briefs that detail strategies for helping
- When Teens Turn Violent
- Recognize the Signs Before It's Too Late - by Sharon Lewis
- 7 Ways to Cope With Bullies
- Index from The Washington Post
- Survey: Serious violence at 10 percent of schools
- from CNN
- A Quiet Battle Against Gangs
- from the Washington Post
- Nearly 1 in 3 has bullied or been target
- from the Philadelphia Inquirer
- Comments on School Violence
- from US students, posted by NewsHour
- Clues to Identifying Violent Teens
- NewsHour Interview with James Garbarino - RealAudio version available)
- Violence and Discipline Problems in U.S. Public Schools: 1996-97
- from The National Center for Education Statistics
- Youth Violence - Panel of Experts
- from NewsHour - March 26, 1998
- Street Gang Dynamics
- By Steve Nawojczyk
- Preventing Conflicts & Violence
- from Good Character
- The 3 R's of Growing Up
- from goodcharacter.com
- Dealing With Pressures
- from goodcharacter.com
- Columbine Jocks Safely Resume Bullying
- lampoon article from The Onion
- Dissecting Columbine's Cult of the Athlete
- from the Washington Post
Guns, Weapons and Protections
- Kids and Guns - Common Sense Safety Tips
- (use poster as an example for Group Process - web sites?)
- Fact File - from Common Sense about Kids and Guns
- (Great for Affective)
- In the News - from Common Sense about Kids and Guns
- headlines and links to online articles
- School Shooting Prevention - Wednesday, March 14, 2001
- RealAudio file from Morning Edition - National Public Radio
- Gun Control History - Weekend Edition - Sunday, March 11, 2001
- RealAudio file - from NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr
- School shooting sparks gun control debate
- from CNN
- Industry -- but not NRA -- backs some restrictions on guns
- from CNN
- School violence needs radical solutions - anti gun control
- Bill Shipp is editor of Bill Shipp's Georgia newsletter
- 1993 CDC Study: Teen Gun Deaths Hit New High
- Screener says detectors do not spot small knives
- from the Philadelphia Inquirer
- School Security Equipment and Technology
- from the National School Safety and Security Services
- School Security & Crisis Preparedness Training
- from the National School Safety and Security Services
- Scared or Prepared? Reducing Risks with School Security Assessments
- by Kenneth Trump, The High School Magazine, Vol. 6 No. 7, May/June 1999
- Hot Topics - School Safety and Violence
- from Education Week
- Districts should proceed cautiously on metal detectors (05/22/00)
- from the New York state School Board News
- How New York got safer schools
- from CNN Interactive
Teen Issues & Adolescent Development
- Like it is
- Resource on teen issues from the UK
- Teen Brain Development
- links to online articles
- Are Teens Just Wired That Way?
- from the Washington Post
- Your Teen's Brain: it really is Different!
- by Barbara Cooke at FamilyEducation.com
- Key Brain Growth Goes on Into Teens
- by Curt Suplee, Washington Post
- Mood Disorders in Children and Adolescents
- by Anne Brown, National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression
- Behavioral Disorders: Focus on Change
- from KidSource OnLine
- USA: McDonald's Uses Sweatshop
- from CorpWatch
- Walt Disney and Slave Labor
- Disney store - Clothing & Accessories
- Factory children in Manchester 19th Century
- Workhouse Children 19th Century
- Child Labor
- Child Soldiers in Afghanistan
- from Child-Soldier.org
- Child Soldiers in Sri Lanka
- from the Society of Peace, Unity and Human Rights
- Drawings by former child soldiers in Sierra Leone
- from Amnesty International
- About Child Soldiers
- from Amnesty International
Parenting & Community
- Talking with Kids
- from the Kaiser Family Foundation
- 10 Tips for talking with kids about tough issues
- from Talking with Kids - Kaiser Foundation
- Raising Children to Resist Violence: What You Can Do - (for Parents)
- from the American Psychological Association
- Poll: More parents worried about school safety
- from CNN
- How to Teach Children About Living in a World with Violence
- from Scholastic
- Candidates for the teacher of the year award speak out on school violence.
- from NewsHour - April 22, 1999 (RealAudio available)
- Explaining Death to a Child
- from the William Wendt Center for Loss and Healing
- Helping Children After a Disaster
- from the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Grieving, Coping and Carrying On
- Grief and Coping - from Common Sense about Kids and Guns
- links to online news articles
- Family Stories
- links to online articles and postings
- Four Tasks of Mourning
- from the William Wendt Center for Loss and Healing
- Learning to Manage the Loss
- from the William Wendt Center for Loss and Healing
- Feelings/Experiences Which Commonly Accompany Loss
- from the William Wendt Center for Loss and Healing
- Helping Children Handle Disaster-Related Anxiety
- from the National Mental Health Association
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- from the National Mental Health Association
- Helping Children Cope With Loss
- from the National Mental Health Association
- Columbine Remembered
- a memorial site for the 12 students and teachers killed
Strategies, Proposals & Solutions
- Improving School Violence Prevention Programs Through Meaningful Evaluation
- Daniel J. Flannery - Kent State University and University Hospitals of Cleveland
- Exposure to Violence and Victimization at School - a systems approach
- Daniel J. Flannery & Mark I. Singer
- Cooperation, Conflict Resolution, and School Violence: A Systems Approach
- Peter T. Coleman and Morton Deutsche
- Stopping School Violence
- National Crime Prevention Council
- Early Warning, Timely Response
- A detailed & highly endorsed report from the Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice
- Making Peace -- Tips on Managing Conflict
- Tips for Doing it Yourself and Getting Help
- Guide for Preventing and Responding to School Violence
- comprehensive guide
- Panel probing school shootings finds no easy solutions
- from CNN
- Secret Service takes a crack at school violence
- from CNN
- Keeping Schools Safe - avoiding copycat crimes
- from NewsHour - May 3, 1999 (also in RealAudio)
- Innocence Lost - How should the legal system handle kids who kill?
- an expert panel discussion on NewsHour
- Gandhi's Views on Education
- from Mahatma Gandhi - his life, work & philosophy
- Mohandas Gandhi - Runner-Up Person of the Century
- from Time Magazine
- Photo Gallery
- Pictorial view of Gandhi's Life
- Pacifism is (Usually) Stupid
- By Brian Carnell
- Non-Violence: What Do We Mean?
- Links presented by the Free Cuba Foundation
- Peacemaker Hero: Martin Luther King, Jr.
- a project by students
- Nonviolence: A Way of Life
- from The King Center
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- from The King Center
- Six Steps for Nonviolent Social Change
- from The King Center - requires flash & Real Audio
- Kennedy Speech on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death
- reposted on private Web space
- Why even pacifists support this war
- by Scott Simon
- The Nonviolence Wheel
- from the Duluth Model, Domestic Abuse Intervention Project
- Violence Wheel - Simplified
- adapted by the SafetyNet site
- Non-Violence Wheel - Simplified
- adapted by the SafetyNet site
- Gandhi's 7 Blunders of the World
- by Mohandas K. Gandhi
Victims, Guestbooks & Memorials
- Sympathy for School Killers?
- from CBS News
- The Robin Hood Hills Murders
- from Free The West Memphis Three
- Overview of the West Memphis Three - accused
- from the West Memphis Three Web site
- West Memphis Victims
- Guestbook for West Memphis Victims
- Brian Deneke Memorial Web site
- Articles about Brian Deneke
- Brian Deneke Case - All Things Considered 11-22-99
- National Public Radio Report - requires Real Audio
- Friends show grief in tattoos, concert
- related to Brian Deneke
- Nothing but Cheers, Wells and Tears
- first day back at Columbine
Anarchy, Rebellion & Terrorism
- Sage, Ink Cartoon - Hard Lessons
- by Sage Stossel of The Atlantic on teen cliques & terrorists
- Burn the Schools-Save the Children
- compares schools and prisons
- What's Wrong With School? (Answer: Everything)
- by James Hutchings of Angry People (Australia)
- Ending Compulsory Education
- by Anarchy Youth
- Fighting back at School
- from Anarchy Youth
- Outcasts Go Underground
- USA Today report on High School Underground
- High School Underground
- Channeling Rebellion
- from High School Underground - Charles Platt
- How to Reboot America
- Suggestions by an Anarchist to avoid future Columbine massacres
- Airlines, passengers confront racial profiling
- from CNN / travel
- Interview with Osama bin Laden
- from PBS Frontline
- Day of Terror Story Archive
- Listing of articles from September 11, 2001
- World Trade Center Attack
- by George Weld
- World Trade Center Memorial photos
- by Jennifer Tracy
- School Violence - Society's Child
- posted by Stephen Stocker
- The War On Individuality Comes Home - Littleton Shootings Predictable
- by James Neff
- Terror Touches Schools
- an index of links from Education Week
- Police: Tampa flyer voiced support for bin Laden
- Report of Copycat suicide flight by 15 year old
- Teen pilot in Tampa crash had "sympathy" for Osama
- printed in the newspaper The Namibian
Education, Pedagogy & Reform
- The Condition of Education 2001
- from the National Center for Education Statistics
- Quality of the Environment for Learning
- from The Condition of Education 2001
- Participation and Persistence in Education
- from The Condition of Education 2001
- Frequently Asked Questions on Topics related to Elementary and Secondary Education
- from the National Center for Education Statistics
- FAQ on School safety
- from the National Center for Education Statistics
- FAQ on Violence prevention
- from the National Center for Education Statistics
- Candidate George W. Bush on Education
- from Issues 2001
- Thoughts on Education & Real Books
- by John Taylor Gatto
- Schools Seen as Out of Sync With Teens
- article from Education Week - May 2, 2001
- Alternatives in Education - links
- provided by Teresa Gallagher
Conclusion
Because anyone can publish on the Web, it sometimes reflects the chaotic, uneven, sometimes confusing world around us. By exploring the Web, you've journeyed into real learning where you must judge between fact and opinion, bias and insight, importance and insignificance. We hope you've added to the wisdom carried around in that head of yours. If you want to check yourself, take a look at the evaluation rubric for this activity. Either way, remember that understanding isn't a destination, but a journey. Have a great trip!
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