06/14/2012
“Threat assessment allows school administrators to return to the philosophy that the punishment should fit the crime, and that the school’s response to a student should be based on the seriousness of the threat, rather than a one-size-fits-all approach that you see with ‘zero tolerance,’” Dewey Cornell said. Cornell is a professor in U.Va.‘s Curry School of Education and program director of Youth-Nex, the U.Va. Center to Promote Effective Youth Development. Read full article and listen to radio interview here.
