Report: School slayings down from 1990s
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About 16 students are murdered at U.S. schools each year, says a new government report that shows the number and rate of slayings has held steady and is lower than in the previous decade.
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Violent crime against students in schools fell by 50 percent between 1992 and 2002, with young people more often targeted for violence away from school.
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NICKEL MINES, Penn.  - A dairy truck driver with a grudge burst into a one-room Amish schoolhouse on Monday and killed three girls execution style before committing suicide in the third deadly U.S. school shooting in the past week, authorities said.
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Gaps in knowledge could prevent legal information sharing about potential killers, according to a report into Virginia Tech massacre. The federal report published Wednesday said educators, doctors and police sometimes did not know when they could share information on students. In April, Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 fellow Tech students and faculty members before killing himself in the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history.
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The number of executions in the United States hit a 13-year low in 2007, mostly because of a de facto moratorium on the death penalty prompted by challenges against the use of lethal injection, according to a report by a group that opposes capital punishment.
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A plan by a teenager to murder teachers  and students in April, the same month a massacre at Columbine  High School in Colorado took place in 1999, was foiled by the  arrest of a Massachusetts student last month, police said on  Wednesday.
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Accountability is a popular concept, but a poll finds Americans hesitant to punish schools for poor results.
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Ending high school at 16, paying teachers according to merit, turning schools over to independent contractors  -  a new report on U.S. education envisions radical change
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Murder rates for 2004 decline in many cities, but gang violence leads to some exceptions.
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The proportion of 14-year-olds reaching the expected standard in English has fallen this year.
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By The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Feb. 4--This is the first of two parts.   Back in 2001, Cumberland County officials decided they didn't need the Luther P. Jackson Elementary School on U.S. 60. The 32 classrooms had been empty for years and the building was a wreck.
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At least 21 people were killed at school during the 2004-05 academic year, a slight increase from the year before, the government reported Sunday.
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A significant proportion of teachers think the standard of A-level and GCSE marking has deteriorated.
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School saga is inflaming old divides between ethnic groups.
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A day after New Jersey banned executions, newly released figures show that capital punishment dropped this year to a 13-year low.
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The number of executions in the United States hit a 13-year low in 2007, mostly because of a de facto moratorium on the death penalty prompted by challenges to the use of lethal injection, according to a report by an anti-death-penalty information group.
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School policies on knives and drugs are to be reviewed following the Jodi Jones murder trial.