Forget the Fire, Just Keep Teaching

In the mid-1970s, the National Institute of Education spent $2.4 million surveying disorder in American public schools. In 1978 it released the “Safe Schools” study, which remains today the most important survey on school disorder. Among its findings:

—Each month, three million high-school students are victims of crimes in school, including two and a half million robberies and thefts. Two hundred eighty-two thousand students are assaulted in school every month.