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| | drug and violence prevention, school prevention programs, delinquency prevention, The Challenge newsletter |
 | | In the study, school connectedness was defined as students’ positive answers to questions regarding whether they feel close to people at school, feel part of school, feel safe at school, and feel that teachers treat students fairly. |
 | | In addition, the location of the school (rural, suburban, urban); the type of school (public, private, parochial); and the number of years of the teachers’ experience also were not factors in whether a student felt connected to his or her school. |
 | | This article is based on his presentation, “Promoting Student Connectedness to School: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health,” at the 2002 National Technical Assistance Meeting, Washington, DC. |
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