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The study, published in the Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, measured the impact of polyvictimization — exposure to multiple forms of victimization — on school climate at the middle and high school levels.

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Last year, a report by the Oxford Martin School at Oxford University, led by Professor Marco Springmann, said a tax on animal products could have a «substantial» effect in terms of mitigating their contributions to climate change.

Eleven representatives from Piedmont attended the Challenge Success Fall Conference to discuss the social and academic climate at participating high schools on Sept. 25 and 26 at Stanford University.

Disclaimer: James Painter receives funding from The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the Norwegian Environment Ministry.

ALBANY — After a two - hour debate that touched on climate change and several anti-Semitic incidents at the City University of New York, Republicans in the state Senate endorsed a one - house budget resolution that shifts costs to New York City, increases aid for public schools and cuts taxes for middle - income New Yorkers.

Also at 7 p.m., EPA Regional Administrator Judith Enck will address climate change, the scope of the problem, major steps that EPA is taking to fight climate change and tips on how people can help, The College of St. Rose, Thelma P. Lally School of Education, Touhey Forum, 1009 Madison Ave., Albany.

At noon, New York City school teachers gather to call on de Blasio and the NYC Council to fully fund and implement changes to school discipline programs proposed last year by the Mayor's Leadership Team on School Climate and Discipline, City Hall steps, Manhschool teachers gather to call on de Blasio and the NYC Council to fully fund and implement changes to school discipline programs proposed last year by the Mayor's Leadership Team on School Climate and Discipline, City Hall steps, Manhschool discipline programs proposed last year by the Mayor's Leadership Team on School Climate and Discipline, City Hall steps, ManhSchool Climate and Discipline, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

«With or without Peralta, we will assemble on June 26th to discuss the range of issues at stake on the state level, including public school funding, health care, women's health care, immigrants» rights, sanctuary state, Dream Act, LGBT rights, voter reform, criminal justice reform, and climate change reforms,» organizers wrote in a press release.

Also at 10 a.m., NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina delivers testimony on school climate before the NYC Council Education Committee, Council Chambers, City Hall, Manhattan.

Also at 10 a.m., state Sen. Tony Avella co-sponsors a forum with the CUNY School of Law and the Center for Urban Environmental Reform on the Climate and Community Protection Act, 2 Court Square W., Queens.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew and other educators at the Changing School Climate breakfast discussion on March 23 at union headquarters in Manhattan said the Positive Learning Collaborative and Community Learning Schools are proven methods to help students cope with emotional issues and improve school disciSchool Climate breakfast discussion on March 23 at union headquarters in Manhattan said the Positive Learning Collaborative and Community Learning Schools are proven methods to help students cope with emotional issues and improve school discischool discipline.

«It's reassuring to have a politician paying attention to reality rather than living in a fantasy world where the laws of physics don't apply,» says Bob Ward of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at the London School of Economics.

Professor Bruce Fitt, professor of plant pathology at the University of Hertfordshire's School of Medical and Life Sciences, said: «There is considerable debate about the impact of climate change on crop production — and making sure that we have sufficient food to feed the ever - growing global population is key to our future food security.»

Professor Dan Lunt, from the School of Geographical Sciences and Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol said: «Because climate models are based on fundamental scientific processes, they are able not only to simulate the climate of the modern Earth, but can also be easily adapted to simulate any planet, real or imagined, so long as the underlying continental positions and heights, and ocean depths are known.»

«We found that vegetation change may have a greater impact on the amount of stream flow in the Sierra than the direct effects of climate warming,» said lead author Ryan Bart, a postdoctoral researcher at UCSB's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management.

In a paper published in the current Journal of Political Economy, Bård Harstad, an associate professor of managerial economics and decision sciences at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, argues that the most effective strategies to combat climate change do not focus on demand - side solutions such as carbon taxes or emission caps.

A new report by authors from UCLA School of Law's Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment and UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability explores the sources and impacts of plastic marine litter and offers domestic and international policy recommendations to tackle these growing problems — a targeted, multifaceted approach aimed at protecting ocean wildlife, coastal waters, coastal economies and human health.

Bob Ward is policy and communications director at the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science

«If, by the time the case gets to the Supreme Court, there is a Trump - appointed justice sitting on it, the odds of the [current Clean Power Plant rule] surviving there do not inspire confidence,» says Michael Gerrard, an environmental law professor at Columbia Law School who directs the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.

According to a new report from the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London, that argument is half - right.

Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, said he's also expecting to see «a lot more litigation about fossil fuel extraction, especially on federal lands and waters,» as the Trump administration seeks to expand domestic energy production.

The 2015 Paris accord «was a landmark agreement,» says Cara Horowitz, co-executive director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law.

It's climate action that is accessible to everyone, because we all decide on a daily basis what we eat,» said Heller, a researcher at the U-M Center for Sustainable Systems in the School for Environment and Sustainability.

On Wednesday, Dec. 17, at the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Noah Diffenbaugh, an associate professor of environmental Earth system science at the Stanford School of Earth Sciences, will discuss approaches to this challenge in a talk titled «Quantifying the Influence of Observed Global Warming on the Probability of Unprecedented Extreme Climate Events.&raquOn Wednesday, Dec. 17, at the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Noah Diffenbaugh, an associate professor of environmental Earth system science at the Stanford School of Earth Sciences, will discuss approaches to this challenge in a talk titled «Quantifying the Influence of Observed Global Warming on the Probability of Unprecedented Extreme Climate Events.&raquon the Probability of Unprecedented Extreme Climate Events.»

The time frame in which China's emissions were overestimated «is too short to have a cumulative impact on climate scenarios,» says Zhu Liu, the lead author and a climate change specialist at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

In the household energy and food and agriculture sectors, the proposal with the biggest impact on both climate change and public health was a 10 - year programme in India to replace 150 million indoor biomass - burning stoves with low - emissions cooking stoves, according to lead author Paul Wilkinson, also at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

But warmer winters under climate change may not offer any refuge, according to Philip Staddon, a research fellow at the University of Exeter Medical School who co-authored a study on this topic earlier this year (ClimateWire, Feb. 24).

Last night, speakers at the nation's most prestigious engineering school held forth on an array of financial and educational strategies to crack the challenge of man - made climate change.

«The study participants were deeply divided along partisan lines, with about 50 % saying they do believe in human - caused climate change and 50 % saying they don't,» said Dan Kahan, professor of law and of psychology at Yale Law School and the lead researcher on the study.

So far, the climate science used in courts has focused mostly on overall trends and gradual processes such as sea level rise, said Michael Burger, executive director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School in New York, who said he has no financial stake in climate change liticlimate science used in courts has focused mostly on overall trends and gradual processes such as sea level rise, said Michael Burger, executive director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School in New York, who said he has no financial stake in climate change litiClimate Change Law at Columbia Law School in New York, who said he has no financial stake in climate change liticlimate change litigation.

Before he was appointed to the White House position, Holdren was a professor at Harvard in both the Kennedy School of Government and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, as well as director of the nonprofit Woods Hole Research Center, which focuses on climate change science and policy.

Alex Loznak, a freshman at Columbia University, and Victoria Barrett, a high school junior at Notre Dame School of Manhattan in New York, aren't waiting for adults to take action on climate cschool junior at Notre Dame School of Manhattan in New York, aren't waiting for adults to take action on climate cSchool of Manhattan in New York, aren't waiting for adults to take action on climate change.

If the climate allows, consider letting kids in mobile classrooms eat outdoors for lunch, either at cafe or picnic tables (following the example of Loggers» Run Middle School, mentioned above) or on blankets.

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Bring the climate change discussion into your classroom with this free resource produced by the Global Learning Programme to support schools wishing to use the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) as an opportunity to investigate climate change, and at the same time focusing pupils» thinking on ideas such as development, sustainability and interdepeclimate change discussion into your classroom with this free resource produced by the Global Learning Programme to support schools wishing to use the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) as an opportunity to investigate climate change, and at the same time focusing pupils» thinking on ideas such as development, sustainability and interdepeClimate Change Conference (COP21) as an opportunity to investigate climate change, and at the same time focusing pupils» thinking on ideas such as development, sustainability and interdepeclimate change, and at the same time focusing pupils» thinking on ideas such as development, sustainability and interdependence.

Although Benveniste, Carnoy, and Rothstein provided little information on how the schools were chosen or how data were collected and analyzed, it is clear that they looked at school organization, the learning climate, teaching methods, and relationships with parents.

A new study by the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE), a research project based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has revealed that climate, culture, and collegiality are more important to the satisfaction of early career faculty than compensation, tenure clarity, workload, and policy effectiveness.

The current climate is certainly a very challenging one for schools with so much change happening at such a quick pace and with a financial climate that is putting the squeeze on every aspect of school life.

At the website for GLSEN, you'll find a wealth of anti-bullying resources for addressing anti-LGBT bullying and harassment; make sure to download GLSEN's report «From Teasing to Torment: School Climate in America — a National Report on School Bullying.»

The GLSEN National School Climate Survey (pdf) is our flagship report on the school experiences of LGBTQ youth in schools, including the extent of the challenges that they face at school and the school - based resources that support LGBTQ students» well - School Climate Survey (pdf) is our flagship report on the school experiences of LGBTQ youth in schools, including the extent of the challenges that they face at school and the school - based resources that support LGBTQ students» well - school experiences of LGBTQ youth in schools, including the extent of the challenges that they face at school and the school - based resources that support LGBTQ students» well - school and the school - based resources that support LGBTQ students» well - school - based resources that support LGBTQ students» well - being.

Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN): Since homophobia and heterosexism undermine a healthy school climate, GLSEN works to educate teachers, students and the public at large about the damaging effects these forces have on youth and adults alike.

The bottom line of this analysis is that the civic climate in high school has a great impact on voter turnout at least 15 years following graduation.

The background survey will include five core areas — grit, desire for learning, school climate, technology use, and socioeconomic status — of which the first two focus on a student's noncognitive skills, and the third looks at noncognitive factors in the school.

At the secondary level, high schools show a higher «leadership deficit» than middle schools, as well as lower ratings on climate, openness to parents, and district support.

The Virginia Early Warning System (VEWS) relies on readily available data — housed at the school — to predict which students are at risk for dropping out of high school; target resources at the school - and division - level to support students not on track to graduate while they are still in school and before they drop out; examine patterns and identify school climate issues that may contribute to disproportionate dropout rates.

Summary: This article provides information on a research project involving 7th graders at 1000 California middle schools asking the students to report on various aspects of school climate.

Based on more than 20 years of research by the University of Chicago, the 5Essentials survey looks at schools beyond test scores to provide meaningful information on school culture and climate.

A cabinet - level position focused on school climate could help us accelerate the changes we want to see at our school.

Three middle school administrators from Washington who have seen the profound impact of SEL on their school climates, brought SEL into all aspects of school life, and successfully advocated at the district for SEL resources, will discuss SEL leadership and lessons learned.

One of my proudest moments was being invited to present at the National Model Schools Conference in Washington, D.C. on «Changing School Climate and Raising Achievement.»