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Ladylike/Butch, Sporty/Dapper: Exploring "Gender Climate" with Australian LGBTQ Students Using Stage-Environment Fit Theory
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Ullman, Jacqueline – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2014
Research with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer, questioning (LGBTQ) and genderqueer (GQ) students has highlighted the links between school-based marginalisation and decreased school outcomes. This paper applies stage-environment fit theory to an investigation of school 'gender climate', the official and unofficial policing of gender…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity, Gender Issues
Out of School and Off Track: The Overuse of Suspensions in American Middle and High Schools
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Losen, Daniel J.; Martinez, Tia Elena – Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2013
In this first of a kind breakdown of data from over 26,000 U.S. middle and high schools, the authors estimate that well over two million students were suspended during the 2009-2010 academic year. This means that one out of every nine secondary school students was suspended at least once during that year. As other studies demonstrate, the vast…
Descriptors: Suspension, Dress Codes, Student Behavior, School Buildings
Use of the Means/Ends Test to Evaluate Public School Dress-Code Policies
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Workman, Jane E.; Studak, Cathryn M. – Educational Policy, 2008
The purpose of this article is to explain how a means/ends test can be adapted for the school environment. Public school officials can use a means/ends test to document an analysis of whether dress-code policies will be effective in diminishing risks to the health, safety, or morality of the school population. Elements of policy evaluation--ends,…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Dress Codes, Policy Analysis, Educational Environment