Yet fear of reprisal or being labeled a snitch may keep students silent. Programs that provide anonymity to students and others reporting crime, violence, or the threat of violence can help make our schools safer places for learning. But, administrators caution, such programs are just one piece of an effort to make schools safer places. Education World talks with administrators who use online violence reporting programs in their schools. Built on sound behavior principles, it's a system that classroom teachers and playground monitors can use together to help kids make positive choices during free play.
Research indicates that FAST works in schools of all kinds, from urban to rural.
What older children do after school when parents are working has been, and is, a knotty problem that government and private sources are working hard to solve. In Boston and in other communities, after-school programs provide great benefits to students and to the communities the programs serve. This week, Education World takes a look at some special programs that target at-risk students in grades five and up. More than 1,100 schools nationwide have chosen the Success for All program as their key to academic achievement. A recent study compared the videotaped teaching styles of 81 eighth-grade math teachers in the U.S. with those of teachers in Germany and Japan.