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Emily Rauscher; Greer Mellon; Susanna Loeb – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
The academic and economic benefits of school spending are well-established, but focusing on these outcomes may underestimate the full social benefits of school spending. Recent increases in U.S. child mortality are driven by injuries and raise questions about what types of social investments could reduce child deaths. We use close school district…
Descriptors: School Taxes, Expenditure per Student, Mortality Rate, Youth
Boedigheimer, Dan – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Approximately 70% of aviation accidents are attributable to human error. The greatest opportunity for further improving aviation safety is found in reducing human errors in the cockpit. The purpose of this quasi-experimental, mixed-method research was to evaluate whether there was a difference in pilot attitudes toward reducing human error in the…
Descriptors: Accidents, Control Groups, Safety, Pretests Posttests
Folkman, John; Strasburger, Tom – School Business Affairs, 2009
Despite the challenges of understaffing, unfunded legislative mandates, and tight budgets, district support services departments are still expected to meet school systems' myriad noncurriculum-related needs. But the very nature of these services, even when they are focused on school safety and security, is so diverse and labor-intensive that…
Descriptors: School Safety, Automation, Internet, Computer Mediated Communication