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Direct linkHamlin, Daniel – Urban Education, 2023
Safety has contributed to the growth of charter schools. However, charter schools may drain public schools of key resources, leading to a decline in safety in public schools. This study examines whether the opening of charter schools in New York City is associated with decreased safety in public schools. Results indicate very little or no…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, School Safety, School Violence
Jaclyn Schildkraut; Amanda B. Nickerson; Matt Vogel; Abbie Finnerty – Journal of School Violence, 2024
Although lockdown drills are a practice widely used in K-12 public schools across the United States to prepare students and staff to respond to acts of violence, research has only just begun to consider the impacts of these practices on those who participate in them. This study adds to the growing body of literature by examining the potential…
Descriptors: Violence, School Safety, Emergency Programs, Drills (Practice)
Reeping, Paul M.; Klarevas, Louis; Rajan, Sonali; Rowhani-Rahbar, Ali; Heinze, Justin; Zeoli, April M.; Goyal, Monika K.; Zimmerman, Marc A.; Branas, Charles C. – Journal of School Violence, 2022
Limited research has been conducted on the state-level factors that may be associated with intentional school shootings. We obtained school shooting data from the "Washington Post" that identified any act of intentional interpersonal gunfire in a K-12 school over the course of two decades. We also compiled new data on active school…
Descriptors: Violence, School Safety, Weapons, State Legislation
Zacharia, Michal Goldberg; Yablon, Yaacov B. – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2022
One of the negative consequences of bullying in schools is its adverse effect on students' sense of safety. Previous studies yielded mixed results and a nonlinear relationship between bullying and students' sense of safety and pointed to the need for revealing possible mediating and moderating factors in order to better understand this…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Fear, School Safety
Gabrielle Wilcox; Maryam Hachem; Daniel Millar; Taylor G. Hill – Journal of School Violence, 2025
Police presence has increased in schools; however, little is known about the effects of positive police presence on academic or social-emotional outcomes in elementary students, even though their role often includes education and mentorship in addition to law enforcement. Results found that this is a recent area of interest with all articles…
Descriptors: Police School Relationship, Elementary School Students, School Safety, Outcomes of Education
Rauk, Leigh; Schmidt, Carissa J.; Pelletier, Karissa; Heinze, Justin E.; Cunningham, Rebecca M.; Carter, Patrick M.; Zimmerman, Marc A. – Journal of School Violence, 2023
In response to fears regarding high-profiled school shootings and firearm violence, schools transformed dramatically, implementing school safety measures such as school police, armed security, metal detectors, and active shooter drills. This study used nationally representative data to assess the relationship between school safety policies and…
Descriptors: School Safety, School Security, Violence, School Policy
James Sebastian; David Aguayo; Wenxi Yang; Wendy M. Reinke; Keith C. Herman – School Psychology, 2024
The present study analyzed concurrent and predictive validity of single-item scales for assessing principal stress and coping. We examined concurrent and prospective relations among stress and coping single-items with principal job satisfaction, overall health, perceptions of school safety, and principal leadership self-efficacy. We also compared…
Descriptors: Principals, Stress Variables, Stress Management, Coping
Download full textBrad Boykin; Juliann Sergi McBrayer; Summer Pannell; Richard E. Cleveland; Suzanne B. Miller; Mary Josephine Carney – School Leadership Review, 2024
School leaders must make decisions and implement strategies to improve a school climate and student achievement, and it benefits them to understand which areas of school climate have the greatest impact on student achievement. The State of Georgia measures school climate and student achievement with its school accountability measure, the College…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Decision Making, Educational Environment
Santos, Jasmin A.; Farley, Kenya V. – Journal of Student Affairs, New York University, 2020
According to Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs, safety is the second most basic need, before love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization, that humans require in order to be motivated. When this theory is placed within the context of higher education, one could argue that in order to reach their full potential, students must first feel…
Descriptors: School Safety, Correlation, College Environment, College Students
Tarablus, Tamar; Yablon, Yaacov B. – School Mental Health, 2023
Although there is increasing research on the prevalence of students' violence against teachers, very little is known about the way teachers cope with this violence. The main aim of the current study was to investigate teachers' willingness to seek help from school management and from teacher-colleagues for dealing with violence. In addition, the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Help Seeking, Violence, Victims
Kreski, Noah T.; Chen, Qixuan; Olfson, Mark; Cerdá, Magdalena; Martins, Silvia S.; Mauro, Pia M.; Branas, Charles C.; Rajan, Sonali; Keyes, Katherine M. – Journal of School Health, 2022
Background: Being bullied online is associated with being bullied in school. However, links between online bullying and violence-related experiences are minimally understood. We evaluated potential disparities in these associations to illuminate opportunities to reduce school-based violence. Methods: We used five cohorts of Youth Risk Behavior…
Descriptors: Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Violence, Aggression
Kibriya, Shahriar; Jones, Gordon – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2021
Purpose: This study aims to evaluate the effect of school safety on standardized learning outcomes for primary-age students in Tanzania, identifying causal direction and magnitudes. Design/methodology/approach: Key dependent variables include standardized learning outcomes in English, reading fluency and math addition problems; while independent…
Descriptors: School Safety, Educational Environment, Elementary School Students, Academic Achievement
Homer, Emily M.; Fisher, Benjamin W. – Journal of School Violence, 2020
Implementing police in schools is a common strategy for ensuring school safety, but it is unknown whether, to what extent, and for whom the presence of police in schools affects student arrest rates. Utilizing nationwide data from the 2013-2014 Civil Rights Data Collection (N = 92,620), this study examines how police presence is related to student…
Descriptors: Police, School Safety, Violence, Juvenile Justice
Schildkraut, Jaclyn; Greene-Colozzi, Emily; Nickerson, Amanda B.; Florczykowski, Allyson – Journal of School Violence, 2023
Mass shootings in schools raise important questions about how best to keep individuals safe and increase survivability in such situations. One of the most common techniques used is lockdown drills, which train individuals to build time and space between them and the threat. Despite their use in 95% of public K-12 schools nationwide, their efficacy…
Descriptors: School Violence, School Safety, Drills (Practice), Emergency Programs
La Salle, Tamika P.; Rocha-Neves, Jesslynn; Jimerson, Shane; Di Sano, Sergio; Martinsone, Baiba; Majercakova Albertova, Silvia; Gajdošová, Eva; Baye, Ariane; Deltour, Caroline; Martinelli, Victor; Raykov, Milosh; Hatzichristou, Chryse; Palikara, Olympia; Szabó, Éva; Arlauskaite, Zydre; Athanasiou, Danai; Brown-Earle, Orlean; Casale, Gino; Lampropoulou, Aikaterini; Mikhailova, Aleksandra; Pinskaya, Marina; Zvyagintsev, Roman – School Psychology, 2021
School climate is a topic of increasing importance internationally. The current study investigated the established measurement invariance of an eight-factor school climate scale using a multinational sample of secondary students. School climate factor means across 14 international groups were compared and findings on the association between school…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Adolescents, Student Attitudes, Secondary School Students
