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Lacoe, Johanna – Urban Education, 2020
A safe environment is a prerequisite for productive learning. Using a unique panel data set of survey responses from New York City middle school students, the article provides insight into the relationship between feelings of safety in the classroom and academic achievement. The survey data include the reported feelings of safety for more than…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, School Safety, Educational Environment, Urban Schools
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Buckley, Maureen A. – Professional School Counseling, 2000
Utilizes three broad age categories to provide a general overview of the characteristics of conceptions of violence for children. Describes general characteristics of children's thought processes and provides specific information regarding children's conceptions of violence. Argues that knowledge regarding how children at different developmental…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Counseling Techniques, Intervention, Prevention
Murtagh, Teresa, Ed.; O'Sullivan, Jean, Ed. – 1998
This booklet, which is available in English, French, and Spanish, presents articles by eight individuals from around the world which demonstrate how teachers worldwide are finding ways to show children how to respect those who are different from themselves. The teachers' mission is to provide children with the means to overcome centuries-old…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Cultural Awareness, Diversity (Student), Elementary Secondary Education
Stratton, Julia – 1995
In a survey of the 1994 finalists in the National Superintendent of the Year program, superintendents from all 50 states identified 10 major ways in which students had changed since the 1960s. Dysfunctional families, the influence of high technology, and threats of crime and violence headed the list. This booklet describes change among American…
Descriptors: Demography, Elementary Secondary Education, Family School Relationship, Social Change
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Braucht, Stephanie; Weime, Barbara – School Counselor, 1990
Developed creative approach to conduct needs assessment in rural schools that involved sending questionnaires to 49 key informants and 145 high school students. Key informants and students agreed that the 2 most serious issues were alcohol-related problems and family dysfunction (violence, divorce). Both groups indicated need for a teen center;…
Descriptors: Adults, Alcohol Abuse, Divorce, Family Violence
Fleming, Robben W. – 1996
This autobiography recounts personal experiences as a college professor and administrator (President of the University of Michigan) during the 1960s to the early 1980s. The 17 chapters discuss early years growing up in Illinois; college years; employment with the federal government; enlistment in the Army; the war in Germany; the end of the war,…
Descriptors: Activism, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, College Faculty