Educational outcomes vary dramatically across schools in the United States. Many under-performing schools, especially in Chicago, also deal with high levels of violent crime on school grounds. Exposure to this type of frequent violence may be an important factor shaping already disadvantaged students' educational experiences. However, estimating the effect of school violence on learning is diff...

Although there is a developing strand of literature on young people’s participation in environmental activism, have been few systematic comparisons their different forms activism. This article compares the people and older counterparts climate change marches Global Climate Strikes (GCSs). The agential structural factors that draw into protest are, general terms, well recognized. However, it als...

Objective: To compare the impact of a manualized anti-violence program on the school learning climate in two elementary schools over a four-year period. Method: Two schools matched for demographic characteristics were compared. The experimental school was given an intervention based on zero tolerance for bullying and the control school, a regular psychiatric consultant. Disciplinary and academi...

introduction climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when it lasts for an extended period of time. climate change may refer to a change in average weather conditions, or in the time variation of weather around long-term average conditions. climate change is caused by factors such as biotic processes, variations in solar radiation received by earth, plate t...

This study focused on the perceived climate for LGBT youth and other minority groups in physical activity settings. A large sample of undergraduates and a selected sample including student teachers/interns and a campus Pride group completed a school climate survey and rated the climate in three physical activity settings (physical education, organized sport, exercise). Overall, school climate s...

authors’ addresses: 1 The Fenner School of Environment & Society The Australian National University Canberra, ACT 0200 Email: brendan. [email protected] 2* The Ecology Centre School of Integrative Biology University of Queensland St Lucia, QLD, 4072 *Corresponding author Email: james. jameswatson@gmail. com 3Department of Archaeology and Natural History College of Asia Pacific The Australian N...