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Echelbarger, Sally; Holler, Marcus; Kelty, Linda C.; Rivera, Matthew E.; Schliesman, Gina M.; Trojanowski, Trina M. – 1999
This project evaluated the effectiveness of school safety interventions to improve student interpersonal relationships and academic achievement. The targeted population consisted of middle school students in a growing, middle class community located in central southeastern Iowa. The issues of school safety were documented by means of student and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Action Research, Change Strategies, Classroom Techniques
Coy, Doris Rhea – 2001
Nearly 160,000 students skip school each day because of intimidation by their peers. Bullying has been a persistent problem that, with the heightened attention to school violence, has been recently recognized as a pervasive issue needing attention. Bullying can take many forms; racial discrimination and sexual harassment are examples of abuse…
Descriptors: Bullying, Child Rearing, Conflict Resolution, Educational Environment
Haynes, Richard A.; Henderson, Catherine L. – 2001
This self-help guide explores the many factors involved in implementing an effective program of protection for schools. It provides direction and answers to the many questions posed by crime and violence in schools by translating certain principles of security into applications for the campus setting. The guide explains the various protection…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Crime Prevention, Crisis Management, Discipline
Nebraska's Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education, 2004
The "Capital Construction Budget Recommendations and Prioritization 2005-2007 Biennium" provides the Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education's funding and priority recommendations on capital construction budget requests from the Nebraska State Colleges, the University of Nebraska, and the Nebraska College of Technical…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Higher Education, Maintenance, State Colleges
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Petray, Clayre; And Others – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 1997
Provides physical educators with an understanding of diabetes, noting important considerations when teaching physical education to students with diabetes. Discusses four aspects of the issue (overview; common questions and answers concerning the control of diabetes; balancing insulin, food intake, and physical activity; and implications for…
Descriptors: Diabetes, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Food
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Jordan, Al; Weinroth, Michael D. – Physical Disabilities: Education and Related Services, 1996
Procedures developed by Gwinnett County (Georgia) Public Schools to evaluate and serve the increasing number of students with medically complex needs are outlined. A medical review panel convened to address health and safety issues and requests that the school provide unique or specialized health care procedures is described, as is the development…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Chronic Illness, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
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Calderon, Jose; Farrell, Betty – Teaching Sociology, 1996
Describes an undergraduate sociology course where college students helped develop and teach multicultural lesson plans to high school students in a multiethnic district of Los Angeles (California). Discusses the origin and organization of the project and addresses some of its inherent structural and substantive challenges. (MJP)
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, College Students, Conflict, Cultural Interrelationships
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Astor, Ron Avi; Benbenishty, Rami; Haj-Yahia, Muhammad M.; Zeira, Anat; Perkins-Hart, Suzanne; Marachi, Roxana; Pitner, Ronald O. – Journal of School Violence, 2002
Examined how risky peer group behaviors at school impacted junior high students' experience of victimization, extending findings from an earlier study of elementary students. Surveys of Arab and Jewish Israeli junior high students indicated that risky peer behaviors in school were one of the strongest predictors of victimization in both elementary…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Arabs, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
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Bronaugh, John C. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1989
Reviews safety and emergency equipment in their application to chemical laboratories. Discusses American National Standards (ANSI) for equipment. Presents practical considerations for the placement and purchase of equipment. (MVL)
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Accidents, Chemistry, College Science
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Whitfill, Kathryn – PTA Today, 1994
Parents can minimize the dangers their children face in the world. As individuals, they can arm themselves with safety information and have conversations about safety subjects. Parents working together in PTA groups can accomplish the most to keep their children safe in school and the community. (SM)
Descriptors: Child Health, Child Safety, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
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Hatkoff, Amy – Childhood Education, 1994
Explores the role that schools can play in providing direction, guidance, and support to children and adolescents in the face of growing violence in society and in schools. Discusses the development and implementation of preventive measures such as additions to the curriculum, mentoring programs, child abuse and neglect programs, parent education,…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Child Safety
Gauthier, Erin K.; Reynolds, Doug – School Business Affairs, 1999
By cooperating with other district staff, law enforcement, fire and rescue personnel, and social services, educators can prevail over school violence. First steps are developing a well-trained team, an effective crisis-response plan, and an alternative site to accommodate students. Guidelines and Web sites are provided. (MLH)
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Crisis Management, Elementary Secondary Education, Fire Protection
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Henry, Jean; McNab, Warren; Coker, J. Kelly – Guidance & Counselling, 2005
Youth today face many health, educational, and social challenges not experienced at such epidemic levels by previous generations of young people. By providing collaborative, comprehensive services that address student needs and promote learning and healthy development, a coordinated school health team can help students succeed in school, as well…
Descriptors: School Counselors, School Health Services, Comprehensive School Health Education, Student Needs
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Hattam, Robert; Smyth, John – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2003
This article draws on the Students Completing Schooling Project, conducted in Australia, which has developed an account of early school leaving though listening to how 209 young people made sense of their experiences of leaving school. In this study, we were keen to understand the way young people deliberate upon how schooling fits into their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dropouts, Identification (Psychology), Self Concept
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Kim, Israel; Barkol, Rina – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2004
This article discusses the idea of the "safe school" juvenile delinquency prevention model as a paradigm of bringing together all of the community participants, in order to bring about ways and means through which community problems could be met and solved. It suggests that in free and democratic societies, the consent of all participant…
Descriptors: Community Problems, Violence, Delinquency, Delinquency Prevention
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