Cowen Institute awards $5,000 faculty grant
By: cowen | August 13, 2009
The Cowen Institute awarded a $5,000 grant to Dr. Paul Hutchinson with the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. His project is entitled “Reducing School Violence to Improve Mental Health and Scholastic Achievement in New Orleans High Schools”
Research has found that neighborhood and school violence can predict attendance, behavior, and academic achievement among adolescents. New Orleans currently suffers from an epidemic of violence, much of which occurs among the adolescent population. Consequently, there is a need for violence prevention programs in New Orleans’ schools, the models for which can be taken from the numerous successful programs nationwide.
The funded study will examine the prevalence of violence, weapon carrying, and absenteeism due to violence in Recovery School District high schools, measure the effects these have on student achievement and mental health, and link this analysis to a review of the violence prevention programs currently being implemented in New Orleans’ public schools. The study will develop a model that links data from a recent survey of high school students in Orleans and Jefferson Parishes with U.S. Census data on neighborhood characteristics as well as information on violence prevention programs and the prevalence of violence in specific schools in order to evaluate which programs and settings are most conducive to establishing safe learning environments in New Orleans’ schools.
Cowen Institute awards $5,000 faculty grant
By: cowen | August 13, 2009
The Cowen Institute awarded a $5,000 grant to Dr. Paul Hutchinson with the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. His project is entitled “Reducing School Violence to Improve Mental Health and Scholastic Achievement in New Orleans High Schools”
Research has found that neighborhood and school violence can predict attendance, behavior, and academic achievement among adolescents. New Orleans currently suffers from an epidemic of violence, much of which occurs among the adolescent population. Consequently, there is a need for violence prevention programs in New Orleans’ schools, the models for which can be taken from the numerous successful programs nationwide.
The funded study will examine the prevalence of violence, weapon carrying, and absenteeism due to violence in Recovery School District high schools, measure the effects these have on student achievement and mental health, and link this analysis to a review of the violence prevention programs currently being implemented in New Orleans’ public schools. The study will develop a model that links data from a recent survey of high school students in Orleans and Jefferson Parishes with U.S. Census data on neighborhood characteristics as well as information on violence prevention programs and the prevalence of violence in specific schools in order to evaluate which programs and settings are most conducive to establishing safe learning environments in New Orleans’ schools.