A special Child Well-Being Index (CWI) report from Duke University tracks trends over time of middle and high school students exposed to peer-to-peer violence in schools.
Key findings include:
- From 1991-2009, more teens in middle and high schools were threatened than actually injured; these trends have now merged, in 2010, so that both threats and injuries occur at the same level.
- Trends in numbers of middle and high school students exposed to violence began to increase in 2002 and 2003 , peaked between 2007 and 2008, and began to decrease around 2008 and 2009. Violence in schools increased in the early 1990s - prior to the more recent peaks.
- The annual numbers of teens injured without a weapon showed the greatest fluctuation. Injury without a weapon increased dramatically from 2003-2007, flattened out in 2008-2009, and decreased slightly in 2009-2010.
Visit our website to read more about the report.
New Book on the CWI!
The Well-Being of America's Children: Developing and Improving the Child and Youth Well-Being Index, edited by Kenneth C. Land, has been released by Springer.
This is the first book to address the development and refinement of the CWI to understand how the well-being of America's children can be measured and improved.