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1998; Warner et al. 1999). Other Youth and School Problems A high rate of violence is only one of many problems that beset troubled adolescents and poorly functioning schools. Other problems are high dropout rates, underachievement, teen pregnancy, and substance abuse (Dryfoos 1998; Flaherty and Weist 1999). Taylor and Adelman (1999) assert that over 50% of the students in many large urban schools manifest significant learning, behavior, and emotional problems. These authors have called for integrated school and community approaches to address what they term “barriers to learning” and have criticized school reform efforts that focus only on imposing standards for academic achievement and reorganizing administrative structure.
The National School Safety Center, using newspaper reports, reported a total of 253 school-associated deaths from September 21, 1992, through April 20, 1999, the date of the Littleton, Colorado, shootings (National School Safety Center 1999). Their data include killings of and by adults on school property, going to and from school, and at athletic events. The three most frequent reasons for school-associated violent deaths were interpersonal disputes (26%), gang activity (13%), and suicides (14%), with most deaths caused by shooting (77%).
