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Robert Gonzalez; Sarah Komisarow – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
In this paper we study the impact on student absenteeism of a large school-based community crime monitoring program that employed local community members to monitor and report crime on designated city blocks during students' travel to and from school. We find that the program resulted in a 0.78 percentage point reduction in the school-level…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Elementary School Students, School Violence, Crime
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Freeman, Jennifer; Simonsen, Brandi; McCoach, D. Betsy; Sugai, George; Lombardi, Allison; Horner, Rob – High School Journal, 2015
The purpose of this study was to explore the direct and indirect effects of SWPBIS on high school dropout rates. We used structural equation modeling methods to analyze the web of relationships among important high school level outcomes and SWPBIS in a large sample of high schools from 37 states. Results suggest that SWPBIS has statistically…
Descriptors: High School Students, Dropout Rate, Correlation, Program Implementation
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Hough, David L. – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2011
More than 2,300 teachers in 241 schools across 25 states participating in a professional development approach to character education classroom management known as Development Designs 1 and Developmental Designs 2 (DD1 & DD2) were studied throughout the 2008-2009 academic school year. Data from this longitudinal program evaluation indicate that…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Poverty, Program Evaluation, Program Implementation