Exposing School Employee Sexual Abuse and Misconduct: Shedding Light on a Sensitive Issue

ABSTRACT

While the media continue to report incidents of school employee sexual misconduct, few empirical studies focus on this issue. To address this gap in the literature, expand knowledge and awareness around the problem, and inform future research and programs, this research intends to document and analyze the characteristics of school employee sexual misconduct cases reported in the media. The authors conducted a landscape analysis of 361 published school employee sexual misconduct cases in the United States from 2014, documenting factors such as offender and victim characteristics, type of incident, technology use, location of offense, and resulting disciplinary actions by schools and law enforcement. These analyses showed that offenders were most often male and general education teachers, with approximately a quarter identified as athletic coaches. Offenders’ average age was 36 years, while the average age of victims was 15. More than half of incidents took place at school or school-related events. Results also showed that school employee sexual misconduct incidents most often involved physical contact; however, technology (i.e., cell phones, computers, cameras/video recorders, and storage devices) played an important role in three out of four cases. Finally, analyses of the criminal and school-related consequences showed that over half of offenders were placed on administrative leave or resigned immediately following their arrest and almost all were convicted of their crimes. Additional findings concerning this topic are also reported in this article.     

Motherhood and Graduate Education: 1970–2000

This study examines issues related to the fertility of graduate students over time. First, it examines changes in motherhood rates between 1970 and 2000 among women aged 20–49 who are enrolled in graduate school, both by themselves and relative to prevailing trends among women not enrolled in graduate school, and to other college educated women. Overall, women enrolled in graduate school are increasingly likely to be mothers of young children, and are increasingly similar to non-graduate students. Second, it examines the timing of these births, and finds that almost half of births occur while women are enrolled in graduate school. Third, a brief review of current maternity leave policies and childcare options available to graduate students is presented. Results are discussed in terms of institutional changes within academia, changes between cohorts that attended graduate school in these decades, and the policy needs of graduate student mothers.

Re‐Forming the School: Taking Swedish Lessons

In the context of government decentralisation and integration of services, over the last 15 years Sweden has been developing an all‐day school based on inter‐professional teamworking and adopting a holistic approach to working with children. The article describes these recent educational reforms in Sweden, which have sought to re‐structure the school and develop new ways of working, offers some evaluative comments on this process and considers possible implications of these reforms for other countries. It compares Swedish school reforms with recent English policy developments intended to make ‘extended schools’ a universal provision by 2010.     

基于ASP语言的高校学籍管理系统的开发

学籍管理是高校教育质量保障体系中的基础,网络教学管理系统,可以使学籍管理更规范、更科学、更高效。目前高校所应用的网络教学管理系统,在学籍管理方面,存在进一步深化的空间。基于ASP语言开发一种新的学籍系统,具有自动输出学籍管理的文档,对成绩进行预警,减少学籍异动的功能;可以提高相关部门之间的信息沟通,使学籍管理更准确、更科学,促进教学质量的提高。     

浅谈中等职业技术学校计算机专业的生存空间

为了适应计算机技术在各个领域的飞速发展,解决计算机人才短缺的问题,各类学校都开设了计算机专业,如何让中职学校计算机专业的学生在激烈的竞争中有自己的生存空间,文章认为中职学校要根据中职学校的特点,找出中职学校与其他类型学校的不同之处,确定计算机专业技能培养目标,培养出有中职学校特色的毕业生,才能找到出口。     

发达国家校车运营管理模式及对上海的启示

从发达国家的经验来看,比较好的校车运营管理模式是委托经营型。从实际情况来看,上海的市场经济比较发达,居民收入相对较高,政府管理体制比较成熟,更适合引入委托经营型的校车运营管理模式。近年来随着上海地铁线路的增加和公交线路的调整,富余的公交车辆也为社会和企业参与校车的运营创造了基本的硬件条件。     

Proceed With Caution? Parents' Union Dissolution and Children's Educational Achievement

Using high‐quality Norwegian register data on 49,879 children from 23,655 families, the authors estimated sibling fixed‐effects models to explore whether children who are younger at the time of a parental union dissolution perform less well academically, as measured by their grades at age 16, than their older siblings who have spent more time living with both biological parents. Results from a baseline model suggest a positive age gradient that is consistent with findings in some of the extant family structure literature. Once birth order is taken into account, the gradient reverses. When analyses also control for grade inflation by adding year of birth to the model, only those children who experience a dissolution just prior to receiving their grades appear relatively disadvantaged. The results illustrate the need to specify and interpret sibling fixed‐effects model with great care.     

Getting There,Being There,Staying and Belonging: A Case Study of Two Indigenous Australian Children's Transition to School

Indigenous Australians are among the most unhealthy populations in the world and yet they reside in a country where the non‐Indigenous population enjoys high standards of well‐being. Education has been identified as the key mechanism for closing this equity gap. At school commencement many Indigenous children are already at risk of disengagement. This four‐year longitudinal study of two Indigenous boys from a socially marginalised community examined key factors affecting transitional trajectories into school. While child characteristics affected level of achievement the critical factors in sustaining positive educational engagement were social support, school practices, inclusion of family and positive expectation.     

将师专建成现代化的教育集团--师范教育发展之构想

文章提出师专以社会力量办学的方式举办基础教育实体,形成以师范教育为核心包括多个教育实体的现代教育集团的发展思路,阐述了建立教育集团的多方面意义以及具体的运作方式、步骤和可能存在的困难与风险.