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Heather L. Chadwell Dennis – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Providing students with equitable and safe learning experiences is a fundamental right; however school districts grapple with balancing student learning and student safety. In the Brown vs the Board of Education (1954) decision, the court identified education as a basic public responsibility and a principal instrument to facilitate understanding…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Legislation, Weapons, School Safety
Scipio, Timothy Lamont – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examined behavior modification programs in schools designed to focus on discipline and that aim to reform disruptive behavior in students, usually over a limited period of time. This was a comparative case study of two type II alternative schools in the Upstate of South Carolina. The findings contributed to the research base regarding…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Discipline, Comparative Analysis
Grady, Kevin Richard – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study employed multiple regression modeling to examine the success of 63 California elementary schools in terms of (a) school-community social capital, (b) student academic performance, (c) student behavioral incident rate, and (d) teacher turnover rate with respect to the extent of school-community partnership programs. Also of interest to…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Community Involvement, Program Effectiveness, Educational Change