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Moore, Raeal; Croft, Michelle; Heisdorf, Sarah – ACT, Inc., 2020
To better understand how students perceive their physical safety in school, ACT surveyed high school students who took the ACT® test as part of a national administration in October 2018. Students were asked about their physical safety in school, including: (1) school climate; (2) the types of safety measures their school currently implements; (3)…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, High School Students, School Safety, Security Personnel
Croft, Michelle; Moore, Raeal; Guffy, Gretchen – ACT, Inc., 2019
Safety is essential to student well-being and success. Because of this, a large percentage of parents and children are concerned about school safety. To get a better understanding of school safety from a student's perspective, ACT-tested students were surveyed and asked about their school's climate and the types of safety measures their school…
Descriptors: School Safety, Student Attitudes, Educational Environment, Academic Achievement
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Brown, Ben – Journal of School Violence, 2005
This paper provides an analysis of data on school security measures which were obtained from a survey administered to a sample of 230 high school students. The majority of students indicated that the school police officers and security officers help keep the schools safe and that the drug-sniffing dogs help reduce drugs in the schools, but there…
Descriptors: School Security, Police, Security Personnel, Gender Differences