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This guide helps K–12 schools and law enforcement and community partners create tailored approaches to addressing anonymous threats of violence, including those received on social media. The toolkit outlines steps that school leaders can take to assess and respond to anonymous threats and better prepare for and prevent future threats. It also highlights how K–12 schools can work with law enforcement and community partners in addressing these threats. Learn more.  

This resource guide (PDF, 10 pages) provides firearm safety resources to help state, jurisdiction, and local health departments and their partners expand their prevention efforts. Learn more (PDF, 10 pages). 

This set of data and web tables includes data from four Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System survey components: Academic Libraries for fiscal year 2024, Fall Enrollment for fall 2024, Finance for fiscal year 2024, and Human Resources for fall 2024. Learn more.

This guide (PDF, 8 pages) provides campus police and public safety personnel with information to help them engage in a data-driven, step-by-step strategic planning process for substance misuse prevention that includes stakeholders from across the campus and members of the surrounding community. Active engagement of campus police and public safety personnel leads to better planning, implementation, and evaluation of prevention strategies and a greater likelihood these strategies will succeed. Learn more (PDF, 8 pages). 

This resource guide (PDF, 11 pages) provides e-cigarette poisoning prevention resources to help state, jurisdiction, and local health departments and their partners expand their prevention efforts. Learn more (PDF, 11 pages). 

This report (PDF, 20 pages) highlights the results of mapping state proficiency standards onto the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scales using state assessment results from the 2021–22 school year and the 2022 NAEP assessments for public schools. The study focuses on the reading and mathematics standards that states set for grades 4 and 8. Learn more (PDF, 20 pages). 

In this activity, students in grades 9–12 use coding languages such as Python to program several features of entry, descent, and landing in a Mars landing, such as determining their spacecraft’s proximity from the surface once it arrives at Mars. Learn more. 

This dashboard provides fatal drug overdose data from the State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System, which collects data on unintentional and undetermined intent drug overdose deaths from death certificates, medical examiner or coroner reports, and postmortem toxicology results. Learn more. 

These files and web tables offer data at state, district, and school levels and include staff counts by professional category, as well as student membership disaggregated by grade, race/ethnicity, and sex. Also included are school-level counts of students eligible for free and reduced-price lunch. Learn more.

This fact sheet (PDF, 2 pages) describes the risks of nitazenes, synthetic opioids similar to fentanyl that can match or surpass fentanyl’s potency. Learn more (PDF, 2 pages). 

This resource (PDF, 2 pages) helps guide clinicians through their decision making with adolescent patients from screening for substance use disorders through diagnosis and treatment. Learn more (PDF, 2 pages).  

This report (PDF, 22 pages) examines how a nationally representative set of school districts reported spending their Title IV-A funds in the 2021–22 school year and viewed the combination of flexibilities and constraints associated with the funds at a time when schools were still managing pandemic-related disruptions. Learn more (PDF, 22 pages).  

This program, which has released updated data for 2024, produces single-year estimates of income and poverty for all U.S. states and counties as well as estimates of school-age children in poverty for all 13,000+ school districts. Learn more. 

This website explains how individuals and organizations can play an important role in helping youth reject or quit vaping and all other tobacco products. It offers guidance for parents and caregivers; educators; health care providers; and states, tribes, communities, and territories. Learn more.

This report (PDF, 25 pages) examines the challenges that Full-Service Community Schools (FSCS) program grantees and their partner schools reported facing in the first year of implementing their grants. Data for this study snapshot come from the Common Core of Data and surveys of fiscal year 2023 FSCS grantees and their partner schools. Grant awards were made in November 2023, and surveys were administered from May through October 2024. Learn more.

This podcast episode explores the role sports can play in protecting young people and supporting healthy development—both on and off the field. Learn more. 

This website helps school leaders build partnerships to ease coordination during emergencies, assess their school’s needs, and develop an emergency operations plan (EOP). It also provides guidance on gathering emergency supplies and conducting training and exercises to familiarize staff members and students with the EOP and teach them a variety of emergency preparedness and first aid skills. Learn more.  

This toolkit supports algebra educators in implementing evidence-based recommendations described in the What Works Clearinghouse Teaching Strategies for Improving Algebra Knowledge in Middle and High School Students practice guide. Learn more.

In this activity, students will encode and decode planetary images in binary code to simulate data transmissions from a distant spacecraft. This lesson can be leveled for various grades and skill levels. Learn more.  

This online resource teaches 11- to 14-year-olds healthy relationship skills to prevent violence before it starts. The toolkit’s evidence-based approach includes seven components for individuals, peers, families, schools, and neighborhoods that work together to prevent dating violence and other risk behaviors. This website has everything needed to implement the components, including trainings, implementation guidance, program materials, and many other resources. Learn more.