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Deborah Renette Delco – ProQuest LLC, 2023
School safety and security strategies is a generic qualitative study that seeks to comprehend school safety and disciplinary strategies through the perspectives and opinions of teachers and principals. The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of the strategies used in secondary inner-city schools to regulate student discipline…
Descriptors: School Safety, Urban Schools, Principals, School Administration
Baker, Kimberly S. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The researcher conducted a quantitative research study to determine the perceptions of two groups of selected school personnel (principals or assistant principals and counselors or teachers) regarding gang presence in the fifth-grade population of elementary schools in a large urban school district in North Texas. The researcher examined and…
Descriptors: School Personnel, Principals, Assistant Principals, School Counselors
Patterson, Barbara K. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This was a qualitative case study focused on a display of understanding how reinstating prayer within public schools can offer an effect on students nationwide. A case study was utilized in this investigation, to explore and provide a clear understanding from the teachers' perceptions on how reinstating prayer can be incorporated into students'…
Descriptors: School Prayer, Public Schools, Religion, Qualitative Research
Ramirez, Mario Hugo – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Taking a critical archival studies approach, this dissertation engages critical discourse analysis as a means of analyzing the analogous treatment and representation of political dissidents from the civil war and alleged gang members in post-conflict El Salvador through the medium of human rights documentation. By analyzing a cross section of…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Violence, Victims, Foreign Countries
Giraldo, Luis Gustavo – ProQuest LLC, 2016
As student diversity in higher education continues to encompass myriad groups that include numerous intersecting combinations of backgrounds, higher education actors must be aware of the changing dynamics of the 21st century student. These changes include growing numbers of previously incarcerated and formerly gang-involved students seeking higher…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Higher Education, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
Fussy, Brooklyne – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Decreasing gang activity in inner city neighborhoods is an essential component to reducing violence and improving our society as a whole. This study was conducted to help generate awareness and a better understanding as to how schools can be best utilized as a protective factor against youth gang activity. The participants consisted of 6 educators…
Descriptors: Prevention, Teacher Attitudes, Juvenile Gangs, Youth Problems
Rodriguez-Almendarez, Ruby – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study (Moustakas, 1994) was to describe the experiences that single Hispanic mothers of gang-affiliated male juveniles face during their sons' reentry process after being released from a Texas Juvenile Justice Department state facility. Methods: After an extensive review of…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Mothers, One Parent Family, Experience
Barrow, Jennifer Cahoon – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to propose a grounded theory that contributed to the understanding of the professional school counselor's role at the secondary school level in working with students in gangs. The study explored the role of the professional school counselor from the first person perspective of the professional school counselor and…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Counselor Role, Secondary School Students, Violence
Adams, Brian Edward – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative study explored the ability of a linked learning career and technical education program to engage fully students and thereby increase at-risk students' persistence in school. The focus was to identify the degree to which linked learning career and technical education programs provide a community atmosphere, increase and maintained…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Career Education, Technical Education, At Risk Students
Vander Horst, Anthony – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In a study of 5285 8th graders from the Gang Resistance and Education Training (G.R.E.A.T.) research, this study applied Travis Hirschi's social bonding theory to examine the curriculum's efficacy in increasing conventional bonding (friends with positive peers, succeeding at education etc.) and decreasing non-conventional bonding (drug…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Resistance (Psychology), Juvenile Gangs, Program Effectiveness
Chiprany, David Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse reported that 35 percent of middle school students and 45 percent of high school students say that there are students who are affiliated with gangs or who consider themselves to be affiliated with gangs in their schools (Arciaga, Sakamoto, & Jones, 2010). Gangs are increasingly violent and…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Suspension, Enrollment, Addictive Behavior
Richards, Maurice V. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examines the process of change within law enforcement, focusing on the leadership, learning, and organizational change required to reduce crime, violence, and social disruption caused by criminal street gangs. The study tests the viability, results, and implications of a new policing model, the trans-jurisdictional task force, through…
Descriptors: Expertise, Qualitative Research, Juvenile Gangs, Crime
Ugandan Immigrant Students' Perceptions of Barriers to Academic Achievement in American High Schools
Ssekannyo, Denis – ProQuest LLC, 2010
In a world that is now a global village, enterprising individuals, especially from Third World countries, who make it to greener pastures do not leave their children behind. But with a long list of barriers to academic achievement associated with immigrant and minority students in American high schools, an understanding of the experiences and…
Descriptors: Juvenile Gangs, High Schools, High School Students, Student Attitudes
Rodriguez, Hector – ProQuest LLC, 2009
In recent years, schools have become a focal point for general delinquency and gang prevention programs for a variety of reasons. One premise behind this approach is that schools can serve as ideal settings for providing delinquency and intervention services because youths spend so much time there. School-based gang prevention efforts are supposed…
Descriptors: Intervention, Delinquency, Prevention, Risk
Villarreal Sosa, Leticia – ProQuest LLC, 2011
There has been continued concern over the continued high dropout rate among Mexican origin youth. The purpose of this study is to understand how everyday experiences in school shape the content and meaning of Mexican origin students' social identities and how those social identities influence their academic trajectories over the transition to…
Descriptors: Mexicans, Foreign Students, Racial Identification, High School Students
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