The new imperative: safe school behavior, strategies, and practices -- An atmosphere for academic success -- An administrator's style -- Authoritative instructors -- Changing student attitudes -- Counselors and students' well-being -- Creating and sustaining parental partnerships -- Disaffected students -- Disengaged students -- Elements of effective lessons -- Female students fighting -- Intruders in the school building -- Potential school dropouts: finish school or full-time job? -- Students who dislike school -- The school safety officer -- Social responsibility -- Student behaviors and attitudes toward academics -- Responses to an individual who talks about destructive acts in a school setting -- Teens' violence against teens.

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