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Stacie M. Gomez – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Purpose: The aim of this project is to determine if the development and implementation of an independent living skills workshop would improve the perceived competence of unhoused youth in performing independent living skills. Methods: The Casey Life Skills Short Assessment was used as a pre-test and post-test. It was found that unhoused young…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Youth, Homeless People, Daily Living Skills
Andrea Tirado; Rosalyn Rodriguez – Office of Assessment, Research, and Data Analysis, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2025
Title IX of the Every Student Succeeds Act (2015) provides the Department of Education with funds to award grants to enable states and districts to deliver services to families living in unstable housing situations. The Project UP-START Program (Project UP-START) is a District program designed to identify students living in unstable housing and to…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Implementation, Homeless People, Grants
Mara Ingrid Ang – Center for Cities & Schools, 2023
Currently, there is a disconnect between the educational goals of the McKinney-Vento (MKV) Homeless Assistance Act, the equity aims of Career Technical Education (CTE) legislation under Perkins V, and policy implementation -- how government agencies seek to implement both in practice. The McKinney-Vento Act mandates that local education agencies…
Descriptors: Career and Technical Education, Work Experience Programs, Federal Legislation, Homeless People
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Center for Research and Reform in Education, 2023
This document seeks to provide a broad overview of the contemporary trends and existing research related to young children experiencing homelessness in the United States. Conducted by Johns Hopkins University's Center for Research and Reform in Education in conjunction with the Johns Hopkins IDEALS Institute, this research was conducted for…
Descriptors: Young Children, Homeless People, Early Experience, Early Intervention
Van Drunen, Molly; Packard Tucker, L.; Dworsky, A. – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2022
This brief describes the relationship between placement stability and youth engagement in the Youth Transitions Partnership (YTP), a program developed and implemented by the Alameda County Social Services Agency (SSA) for 14- to 20-year-olds in foster care who have multiple risk factors for experiencing homelessness. The authors used program data…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Young Adults, At Risk Persons, Foster Care
Minnesota Department of Education, 2022
The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) ensures educational equity for multilingual learners through supporting school districts and charter schools to develop, implement and evaluate research-based language instruction education programs so that multilingual learners, including students with English learner status, attain academic language…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Student Characteristics, Academic Achievement, State Regulation
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Kolluri, Suneal – Urban Education, 2022
The Common Core State Standards were designed to prepare all students for college and careers. Using theories of cultural capital and culturally relevant pedagogy, this study of 54 college-bound, inner-city high school seniors seeks to determine how students perceive their college readiness during the implementation of the new standards. While the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Common Core State Standards, College Readiness, Cultural Capital