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Weapons and School Violence Policy Briefing
Weapons and school violence are the topics of a Congressional briefing sponsored by AASWSW, the National Academy of Education and the American Educational Research Association. The Capitol Hill briefing will take place 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. June 12 in Rayburn Building 2261, Washington, DC., and will inform policy makers on the impact of weapons and school
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Ron Avi Astor, PhD
Inducted in 2017
Ron Avi Astor is the Stein-Wood Professor of School Behavioral Health in the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work and USC Rossier School of Education (by courtesy). His work...
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Elizabeth M. Tracy
Inducted in 2019
Elizabeth M. Tracy, Grace Longwell Coyle Professor Emerita in Social Work at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, has studied methods to assess social network...
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John Landsverk, PhD
Inducted in 2013
Trained in sociology (doctoral) as well as psychiatric epidemiology and mental health services research (post-doctoral), Dr. Landsverk’s research career has focused on mental health care for children involved in the...
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