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School Climate and Classroom Environment

• A personal vision of a good school
  The author envisions schools as communities of learners. A school's quality, character, and student accomplishments depend heavily on collegiality, or the nature of its adult relationships.
• Classroom management for secondary teachers
  This guide to classroom management, which incorporates the essential features of classroom organization, management, and discipline, provides information to help secondary school teachers establish effective classroom management systems. The text emphasizes prevention through planning and addresses decisions teachers must make in the typical classroom, e.g., arranging physical space, choosing rules and procedures, planning and conducting instruction, maintaining appropriate behavior, using good communication skills, dealing with problem behavior, and managing special groups.
• Comer Schools: Are They Recognizable Through Direct Observation?
  "The Comer School Development Program is a school reform model that, in full implementation, creates positive school climate. The research has confirmed that this can be observed.
• Comer Schools: Are They Recognizable Through Direct Observation?
  "The Comer School Development Program is a school reform model that, in full implementation, creates positive school climate. The research has confirmed that this can be observed.
• Comprehending Youth Violence
  This article describes causal factors pertaining to youth violence (family variables, individual characteristics, and societal factors) and presents a transactional-ecological conceptual model for understanding youth violence. Makes program recommendations as examples of how the transactional-ecological framework can be applied toward addressing youth violence and discusses implications of this perspective.
• Dumping Ground or Effective Alternative: Dropout-Prevention Programs in Urban Schools
  Focusing on students’ perspectives, this article examines whether an urban dropout-prevention program offers students effective alternatives to regular classes or if, instead, the program is simply a dumping ground for unwanted students. Findings generated from interviews and observations suggest both.
• ETS Study Links Effective Teaching Methods to Test-Score Gains.
  Reports on the study conducted by Educational Testing Service associate research scientist Harold Wenglinsky on the relationship between indicators of teacher quality on the performance of eighth-grade students in the 1996 National Assessment of Education Progress in the United States. Teachers' classroom practices, professional development experiences and educational backgrounds that affect student performance.
• Hope for urban education: A study of nine high-performing, high-poverty, urban elementary schools.
  This report tells the stories of nine urban elementary schools that served children of color in poor communities and achieved impressive academic results. All of the schools used federal Title I dollars to create Title I school wide programs.
• Improving the retention of special education teachers. Final report. RTI project 5168
  A 3-year research and development project examined ways to improve the retention of special education teachers in the Memphis (Tennessee) City Schools. Several individual studies identified sources of dissatisfaction with teaching and the conditions that would encourage career longevity among teachers.
• Raising Expectations To Improve Student Learning
  The issue of low teacher expectations of students is addressed, bearing in mind that any effort to address low teacher expectations for students that does not address the broader issue of school change will fail. The first section of the monograph explores the relationship between teacher expectations and student achievement.
• Review of research on ways to attain goal six: Creating safe, disciplined, and drug-free schools.
  Making every school in America free of drugs and violence and fostering a disciplined environment conducive to learning by the year 2000 is the aim of the sixth National Education Goal. Schools are far from this goal as violence, drugs, and discipline problems continue to disrupt learning.
• Violence in Schools: Multiple Realities
  The topic of school violence is becoming an increasingly contentious issue. Claims are made by parents and the media that educators are intentionally downplaying the true nature and extent of the problem.
• Violence in Schools: Multiple Realities
  The topic of school violence is becoming an increasingly contentious issue. Claims are made by parents and the media that educators are intentionally downplaying the true nature and extent of the problem.