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Cina Mosito; Zandisile M. Sitoyi – Perspectives in Education, 2024
As a signatory to the United Nations, South Africa is obliged to ensure that all children have access to quality education. The reality though is that there are many barriers which make access to education difficult if not impossible. School violence, an escalating worldwide phenomenon, is widely cited as one of the challenges that are faced by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Violence, Teaching Conditions, School Safety
Jurs, Rebecca – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological case study was to investigate how school safety protocols have changed in a suburban county since the Sandy Hook Elementary 2012 school shooting. Through interviews of district safety directors and school resource officers and analyzing district school safety documents, this study showed how…
Descriptors: School Safety, School Violence, Weapons, Crime
Nicole Spatafore – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The reasons for committing to active shooter drills and exercises are based on psychological survival and decision-making research, along with experiences and lessons learned. However, in the realm of education, the origins and research-based purposes of active shooter drills are mostly unknown. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Schools, School Safety, Curriculum
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Chase M. Billingham; Shelley M. Kimelberg; Matthew O. Hunt – AERA Open, 2024
We utilize original survey data to examine factors influencing parental assessment of schools. When asked a series of questions about their evaluation of hypothetical schools in a survey experiment, respondents were given the option to select "don't know" and explain in their own words what additional information they would want to know…
Descriptors: School Safety, Parent Attitudes, Institutional Characteristics, Crime
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Véronique Irwin; Ke Wang; Jiashan Cui; Alexandra Thompson – National Center for Education Statistics, 2024
This report provides the most recent national indicators on school crime and safety. The information presented in this report serves as a reference for policymakers and practitioners so that they can develop effective programs and policies aimed at violence and school crime prevention. Accurate information about the nature, extent, and scope of…
Descriptors: School Safety, Crime, Schools, School Violence
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Padgett, Zoe; Diliberti, Melissa – National Center for Education Statistics, 2020
The data in this report are from the 2003-04, 2005-06, 2007-08, 2009-10, 2015-16, and 2017-18 administrations of the School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS). SSOCS is a nationally representative sample survey of public elementary and secondary schools in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The survey asks principals about the prevalence…
Descriptors: Expulsion, School Surveys, Crime, School Safety
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Gallagher, Kathleen; Valve, Lindsay; Rodricks, Dirk J. – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2023
This article explores the unexpected discovery of a significant divergence between the strong feelings of safety and belonging reported in a school and neighborhood safety survey, and the discursive, contradictory, and complex narratives about safety revealed by students' storytelling through theater and narratives shared with researchers in a…
Descriptors: School Safety, Neighborhoods, Foreign Countries, School Surveys
Caroline Adamczyk – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation examines the effects of neighborhood characteristics on Detroit Public School Community District students' attendance rates for the 2018-19 school year. First, I analyze the effects of daylight savings time, relative to school start time, on absences for elementary and middle school students. By observing the natural change in…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Attendance
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Thuto Polonyana; Moeniera Moosa – Perspectives in Education, 2024
The rise of violent incidents in South African schools has sparked widespread concern. Most studies on school violence focus on the experiences of learners; little attention has been paid to educators' experiences. As a result, violence against educators is both underreported and understudied. The research question prompting this study was: What…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Violence, Educational Environment, Secondary School Teachers
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Keddie, Amanda – Australian Educational Researcher, 2023
Amid seemingly endless media reports of sexual misconduct in our various institutions and particularly our schools, calls for better addressing gender injustice through education have again proliferated. In light of these calls, it continues to be important to appreciate the difficulties of teaching and activism in this area within the context of…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Private Schools, Sexual Abuse, Rape
Council of the Great City Schools, 2023
Gun violence and school shootings have become more prevalent in recent years, and beginning in 2017, firearm-related injuries became the most common cause of injury-related death for children ages 1 to 24. Students also face the threat of bullying, gangs, racism, drugs, and abuse. In recognition of the need for collective action, the Council of…
Descriptors: School Safety, Weapons, Violence, Crime
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Hamlin, Daniel; Li, Angran – Journal of School Choice, 2021
Safety-seeking has fueled the growth of charter schools. Descriptive evidence suggests different possible factors underlying safety in charter schools. This study investigates characteristics mediating the relationship between safety and charter schools by linking five waves of the School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS: 2003-04; 2005-06;…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Safety, School Surveys, Crime
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Renbarger, Rachel; Rehfeld, David; Sulak, Tracey – Theory Into Practice, 2022
With increased media coverage of school violence, communities and schools have hired school resource officers (SROs) in an attempt to reduce the violence. These SROs often have a variety of duties and training depending on a variety of factors both related and unrelated to school crime and violence prevention. These may include typical school…
Descriptors: Law Enforcement, Police School Relationship, Violence, Intervention
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Riley Burr; Jana Kemp; Ke Wang – National Center for Education Statistics, 2024
Using data from the School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS), the report presents findings both on crime and violence in U.S. public schools and on the practices and programs schools have used to promote school safety. SSOCS collects data from public school principals about violent and nonviolent crimes in their schools. The survey also collects…
Descriptors: Crime, School Safety, School Violence, Prevention
Salvatore Robert D'Angelo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
My dissertation studies the relationship between counseling and violence within U.S. schools. Much of the research on school security and school safety tends to lean heavily on routine activities theory and other opportunity theories, which limits the study of other factors critically relevant to this topic such as school climate. This…
Descriptors: School Safety, School Counseling, Educational Environment, School Violence
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