School climate has been widely examined through both empirical and theoretical means.
However, there is little conceptual consensus underlying the landscape of this literature …

Many studies have examined the effects of neighbourhoods on educational outcomes. The
results of these studies are often conflicting, even if the same independent variables (such …

Computer vision methods that quantify the perception of urban environment are increasingly
being used to study the relationship between a city's physical appearance and the behavior …

Research on school leadership suggests that both principal and teacher leadership are
important for school improvement. However, few studies have studied the interaction of …

The authors examined the differential effects of prior academic achievement, psychosocial,
behavioral, demographic, and school context factors on early high school grade point …

The overwhelming majority of published scholarship on urban high schools in the United
States focuses on problems of inadequacy, instability, underperformance, and violence …

Drawing on a larger study, this qualitative investigation explored the factors that African
American and Latino high school students perceived as barriers to positive educational …

Although secondary school violence has actually decreased, public concern over student
safety is still prevalent. One response to publicized school violence has been the …

The authors examine the effects of school bonding on academic achievement (measured by
math achievement scores) in a sample of 12th graders from the Educational Longitudinal …

Purpose Classroom engagement is a key indicator of student motivation, learning potential,
and the eventual probability of persisting to high-school completion. This study investigated …