Cleveland State University

CMSD has administered a school climate survey to secondary students for the last eight years. Under this project, researchers will use the data from that survey to explore the relationship between secondary school climate and student outcomes (social and behavioral competencies and academic ones) overall and for certain student subgroups within schools.

The purpose of this project is to develop and document the feasibility of a school-based youth participatory action research intervention intended to improve student academic achievement and engagement and school social and behavioral context.

School dropout has long been recognized as a "silent epidemic" and an "invisible crisis" among low-income minority students. On a national level, the Black student population has about a 50 percent chance of earning a high school diploma within 4 years of entering ninth grade. In this project, researchers will further develop and refine an existing school-based program that uses a career education approach to facilitating school engagement and reducing school dropout, the Career Passport P...