ERIC Number: ED619323
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Dec
Pages: 26
Abstractor: ERIC
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We're Not All Average: Reconceptualizing School Climate to Acknowledge Diverse Student Experiences in Schools. Research Report
Merrill, Lisa; Black, Kristin; Gilliard, Reggie
Research Alliance for New York City Schools
How students feel about their schools--their perception of the safety, inclusiveness, and rigor of the school environment--has important implications for their happiness, engagement, and academic success. A wide variety of research suggests that a positive school climate contributes to students' academic engagement, growth, and success. These research findings--and the growing availability of valid survey instruments to measure school climate--have prompted many districts and states across the country to focus on school climate as a central piece of their accountability systems. In this report, the authors present a series of quantitative analyses examining the diversity of students' experiences of school climate, both across New York City and within individual schools. The findings provide further evidence for changes in school climate reporting policy and raise some challenging questions about how best to respond to individual student needs while also maintaining the confidentiality of their survey responses. The approach in this report is also in line with values that are increasingly important in the work of researchers in the nation's largest school district: acknowledging the diversity of individual students' experiences and increasing the visibility of inequitable conditions across the school system. [For the Executive Summary, see ED619324.]
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Student Attitudes, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Student Diversity, School Safety, Trust (Psychology), Teacher Student Relationship, Racial Differences, Ethnicity, Gender Differences, Age Differences, Instructional Program Divisions, Middle School Students, High School Students, Student Characteristics, Peer Relationship, Cultural Awareness, Behavior, Bullying, Educational Quality
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Publication Type: Reports - Research-practitioner Partnerships; Reports - Research
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education; High Schools
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: New York University, Research Alliance for New York City Schools
Identifiers - Location: New York (New York)
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Every Student Succeeds Act 2015
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