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Heise, Michael; Nance, Jason P. – Journal of School Violence, 2021
While recent scholarship generally emphasizes how public school principals' perceptions influence various school safety practices, far less is understood about how principals' perceptions of school crime risk and academic climate informs schools' decisions on specific school safety outcomes, including a school's SRO/police presence and policies on…
Descriptors: Crime, School Surveys, School Safety, Public Schools
Eden, Max – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2019
In December 2018, the Trump administration rescinded the Department of Education's 2014 "Dear Colleague Letter" (DCL), thus returning to local school districts and boards their traditional authority to set discipline policy. Although it was frequently described as "nonbinding guidance," the DCL was anything but. Instead, the…
Descriptors: School Safety, Educational Environment, School Policy, Discipline Policy
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Trimmer, Karen – Athens Journal of Education, 2014
This paper explores a theoretical dilemma that arose during a study of risk-taking in decision-making for public school principals in Western Australia. Western Australia is one of six Australian States. It is geographically diverse, including extremely remote schools serving Indigenous communities. The governance mechanism for public schools in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Decision Making, Principals, Administrator Behavior
Blazer, Christie – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2012
The role that social media should play in education is being hotly debated in school districts across the country. The adoption of social networking for educational purposes lags behind the public's general usage because educators fear that students will be exposed to inappropriate online content, unwanted adult interactions, and bullying from…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Internet, Web Sites, Computer Uses in Education
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Stamm, Mark; Frick, William C. – American Secondary Education, 2009
Student drug and alcohol policies often impose consequences on students that may place the child at greater risk of delinquent behavior. The project described in this article sought to explore how different stakeholders in two public school systems perceived the ability of their drug and alcohol policies to protect the needs of the school, the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Delinquency, Drug Use, Drinking
Mekdeci, Kelly Broyles – ProQuest LLC, 2011
United States schools and American Overseas (A/OS) schools depend upon educational technology (ET) to support business operations and student learning experiences. Schools rely upon administrative software, on-line course modules, information databases, digital communications systems, and many other ET processes. However, ET's fragility compared…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Institutional Mission