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Schulz, John H.; Wilhelm Stanis, Sonja A.; Li, Christine Jie; Morgan, Mark; Webb, Elisabeth B. – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2022
Lead poisoning from ingestion of bullet fragments in gut piles and unretrieved deer carcasses continues to cause mortality in bald eagles. To address this issue, the Midwest region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) initiated an outreach program during 2016-2018 encouraging hunters to voluntarily use nonlead ammunition while deer…
Descriptors: Weapons, Outreach Programs, Poisoning, Attitudes
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Doss, Daniel Adrian; McElreath, David Hughes; Gokaraju, Balakrishna; Mallory, Stephen L.; Tesiero, Raymond; Taylor, Linda; Hong, Qiuqi; Jones, Don; McElreath, Leisa Stuart; Parker, McKenzie – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2020
This study examined differences in reported campus criminality on selected community college campuses in the years between 2005 and 2016 representing the years preceding and succeeding the implementation of Mississippi's 2011 concealed carry legislation. Each campus included in this study is a public-funded community college in Mississippi. Using…
Descriptors: Crime, Community Colleges, College Environment, Weapons
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McGowan, Veronica F. – Administrative Issues Journal: Connecting Education, Practice, and Research, 2017
In order to explore themes of privilege in regard to policy availability, language accessibility, and underlying bias, policies related to two topics of interest to higher education campus visitors, campus firearm carry policy and smoking policy, are explored to determine how Web-based information is presented to various audiences. Implications of…
Descriptors: School Policy, Smoking, Weapons, Colleges
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Poteat, V. Paul; Scheer, Jillian R.; Chong, Eddie S. K. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
There is little data on whether school discipline or juvenile justice sanctions are directed disproportionately toward sexual minority youth (e.g., lesbian, gay, bisexual, or questioning; LGBQ) compared with heterosexual youth and even less on factors that may relate to such disparities. We tested for sexual orientation-based disparities in school…
Descriptors: Sexual Orientation, Juvenile Justice, Comparative Analysis, Discipline
Joyce Foundation, 2010
Among the great strengths of a policy-oriented foundation like Joyce is the willingness to take a long view, to be patient investors in ideas that take time to have impact, and to take chances on projects that may not work out. But in times of crisis, Joyce team and partners also have an obligation to be responsive to immediate challenges in their…
Descriptors: Philanthropic Foundations, Nonprofit Organizations, Public Policy, Economic Climate
Sloan, Matt – 2000
The 1999 Wisconsin Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) was conducted as part of a national survey effort by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A stratified random sample of classrooms in all public schools with ninth through twelfth grades was taken. The YRBS was administered to 1,336 students in 46 public schools in Wisconsin in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dietetics, Drinking, Drug Use
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 2002
The 2001 Wisconsin Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) was conducted as part of a national effort by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to monitor health-risk behaviors of the nations high school students. This report contains findings from the 2001 Wisconsin YRBS in eight priority areas: protective assets, unintentional injuries,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dietetics, Drinking, Drug Use
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Renfro, Joy; Huebner, Ruth; Callahan, Connie; Ritchey, Becky – Journal of School Violence, 2003
Despite the fact that many incidents of extreme violence have taken place in rural areas there is still some resistance on the part of rural school administrators to admit that violence is a problem in their schools. This article provides a comparison of rural and urban student and staff self-report of school violence (perpetration, victimization…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Rural Schools, Violence, Rural Areas