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Christie, Kathy – Phi Delta Kappan, 2005
In its 2003 report, School Survey on Crime and Safety, the National Center on Education Statistics (NCES) found that, during the 1999-2000 school year, 29% of schools reported having more difficulty with student bullying than with any other single discipline problem. A similar 2004 NCES report, Indicators of School Crime and Safety, found that, in…
Descriptors: Prevention, School Surveys, Violence, Discipline Problems
Duke, Daniel L. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2006
Recent studies of turnarounds of low-performing schools have focused on the factors that made their successes possible. The author of this article realizes that it would also be valuable to look at what made the schools decline in the first place and the factors that might hinder their transformation. He focuses on some of the aspects of the…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Institutional Evaluation, Low Achievement, Underachievement