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Kilman, Carrie – Teaching Tolerance, 2010
In Chicago's public school system, LGBT students were three times more likely than straight peers to miss school because of threats to their safety, according to 2003 districtwide survey; and students who face regular harassment were more like to drop out. In this article, the author shares her thoughts on the move of Chicago school officials to…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Public Schools, Bullying, School Safety
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Maher, Michael J.; Sever, Linda M. – Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education, 2007
Previous research indicated that Catholic high schools in the United States were not addressing the topic of homosexuality in any significant and systematic way prior to the mid-1990s, though practitioners in Catholic high schools have begun to address the topic in recent years. This study, in sampling seven Catholic schools in the greater Chicago…
Descriptors: Social Bias, School Culture, High Schools, Catholic Schools