Research Perspectives / Public Policy / Social Science
A Historical Reflection of Public Policy and School Safety
Public policy’s greatest impacts on school safety have been more rigorous building codes, abolishing grandfather clauses, and mandated drills. Sadly, those actions have been largely responsive and not proactive, as was the situation in the 1958 Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago, Illinois that killed 92 pupils and 3 nuns. “Allowing for…
Read MoreJohns Hopkins Medicine Residency Requires 20 Hours of Emergency Preparedness Curriculum, But K-12 School Leader Licensure Mandates Zero Hours of Emergency Preparedness Curriculum
It’s time that licensure requirements for K-12 leaders include a 1 credit course (15 hours) of crisis preparedness and response training. While this topic might be grazed upon within some post-secondary school leader (principal) coursework, it’s certainly not provided the depth of dedicated focus warranted in consideration of the evolution of school crisis needs over the…
Read MorePerspectives on Violence and Public Health – Injury Prevention, Violence Prevention, and Trauma Care: Building the Scientific Base
I anticipated focusing on the Haddon Matrix for this week’s BLOG post. However, I felt that this week’s entry was better suited to build the foundation for the Haddon Matrix. Developed by William Haddon in 1970, the matrix looks at factors related to personal attributes, vector or agent attributes, and environmental attributes before, during and after…
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