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Book SynopsisIn the last decade, more than 300 violent deaths have occurred in or near school campuses. The killers, their motivations and backgrounds, and levels of damage inflicted vary, but our response and our goal remains singular: to protect our schools and keep those within them safe. This handbook seeks to help administrators, school boards, contractors, teachersanyone connected with the design, construction, or administration of schoolsachieve this goal by providing easy-to-follow guidelines for building safer school environments. Drawing from various government resources, including the Centers for Disease Control, Department of Education, Department of Defense, and Department of Health and Human Services, this one-of-a-kind handbook takes a two-part approach to protecting schools from threats. The first part addresses how to design and build a safe school. It provides a basic security overview and discusses how to identify critical assets and conduct risk-threat assessments. The second
Trade ReviewThe Education Facility Security Handbook...represents a supreme effort to protect and preserve our national treasures.... This text provides school administrators a key resource document to implement a proactive approach to address what many define as a nation-wide urgent state of affairs.... A high priority for any administrator who has facility, security, and emergency response responsibilities.... Every library in the county should house the Education Facility Security Handbook.... The authors have succintly described and illustrated education facility requirements.... A reader-friendly text that addresses one of the most critical issues of the twenty-first century. -- Thomas E. Baker * American Reference Books Annual *
