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Will Davis; Daniel Kreisman; Tareena Musaddiq – Education Finance and Policy, 2024
We estimate the effect of universal free school meal access through the Community Eligibility Program (CEP) on child body mass index (BMI). Through the CEP, schools with high percentages of students qualified for free or reduced-priced meals can offer free breakfast and lunch to all students. With administrative data from a large school district…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Low Income Groups, Lunch Programs, Eligibility
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Jana Obrovská; Martin Majcík; Jaroslava Simonová – British Educational Research Journal, 2025
Educational inequalities persist between students of low socioeconomic status and their more affluent peers. At the same time, there is evidence of positive relations between student engagement and achievement. This multiple case study investigates a national project aimed at increasing student engagement and achievement through post-COVID-19…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Low Income Students, Disadvantaged Schools, Disadvantaged Youth
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Dena Seidel; Marissa Staffen; Lamia Abdallah; Xenia Morin – Journal of Extension, 2025
This article shares research outcomes and recommendations for replication of a Food, Agriculture and Marine Ecosystems (FAME) pilot project that successfully supported high school aged youth involved in a new 4-H special interest program. The goal of the program was to recruit and engage underserved youth in STEM learning through the production of…
Descriptors: Enrichment Activities, STEM Education, Video Technology, Story Telling
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Ni Shuilleabhain, Aoibhinn; Cronin, Anthony; Prendergast, Mark – Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications, 2021
In this paper we explore the attitudes of under-privileged secondary school pupils in Ireland towards mathematics and investigate the impact of attending a 4-week engagement programme on these attitudes. The pupils involved in this research attended schools recognized by the Department of Education & Skills as socio-economically deprived.…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Program Effectiveness, Program Length, Mathematics Education
Adam M. Lavecchia; Philip Oreopoulos; Noah Spencer – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2024
This study finds substantial reductions to criminal activity from the introduction of a comprehensive high school support program for disadvantaged youth living in the largest public housing project in Toronto. The program, called Pathways to Education, bundles supports such as regular coaching, tutoring, group activities, free public…
Descriptors: Crime Prevention, High School Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Poverty
Pardini, Patricia – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This quantitative quasi-experimental study was completed to identify the impact the Success for All: Reading Edge (SFA) program had on student achievement at a Title I middle school. To improve literacy and student achievement in schools, scripted reading programs were created. With the popularity of these programs, research needs to be completed…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness, Reading Achievement, Disadvantaged Schools
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Bowen, Daniel H.; Kisida, Brian – Education Next, 2023
After a steady increase throughout the middle of the 20th century, arts education has been in decline since the 1980s. Teachers attributed the declines to test-score pressures, budget cuts, or both. These trends have been most pronounced for students of color, who are more likely than white students to attend under-resourced schools and about half…
Descriptors: Art Education, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, Disadvantaged Schools
Victoria E. B. Bethley – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem addressed in this study is the high dropout and poor graduation rates among at-risk students attending Title I high schools in Virginia. The purpose of this causal comparative study was to (a) assess current levels of school connectedness, achievement focus, student persistence, grades, and attendance of at-risk high school students in…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, High School Students, Low Income Students, Disadvantaged Youth
Kimberly Herbert – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Teacher retention in high-poverty middle schools is a topic of concern. Teachers make the decision to leave the profession for a variety of reasons. Induction programs are put in place to for support with the goal of helping new teachers remain in the profession. The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to identify critical components of…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Poverty Areas, Economically Disadvantaged, Beginning Teachers
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Gwendolyn R. Svenson; Olivia Arnold; Patricia Vigil; Naomi Nishi; Christianne Magee – Journal of Youth Development, 2025
The Veterinary Perspectives Institute (VPI) was designed to address the challenges faced by underrepresented youth who are interested in veterinary medicine. This study examines the VPI, a tuition-free program that introduces students from under-resourced high schools to veterinary medicine and One Health through a hands-on, transdisciplinary…
Descriptors: High School Students, Disadvantaged, Veterinary Medicine, Biomedicine
Feng, Mingyu; Huang, Chunwei; Collins, Kelly – WestEd, 2023
As a promising tool for improving math education and closing the achievement gap, the use of educational technology has dramatically expanded in K-12 education in recent years, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. ASSISTments was one of the few digital learning programs recommended for use in response to the COVID-19 pandemic (Sahni et al.,…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Mathematics Instruction, Learning, Time Perspective
Smith, Kevin D. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study sought to identify how teachers perceived the effectiveness of administrative support, induction program support, and mentor support. This study addressed the following research questions: (a) Is there a relationship between the perceived effectiveness of their administrative support and teaching in a high-poverty school for beginning…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Mentors, Program Effectiveness, Administrator Role
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Bates, Gareth; Connolly, Steve – Curriculum Journal, 2023
The notion of cultural capital, defined in its Arnoldian sense, of "the best that has been thought and said", has been at the centre of the Conservative government's education policy for the last few years in England. While it is clear that this version of cultural capital--different from the sense in which it was used by Pierre…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
Chavone Taylor Nash – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The transition from high school to college is both scary and unfamiliar to each year's new participants. For high school students attending school in underserved communities, this transition can be lonely and often inaccessible. To combat this, nonprofits and other community organizations provide additional support services to students during this…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Post High School Guidance, High School Graduates, Student Experience
Hollie Stegeman Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this study was to apply two of Kirkpatrick's Four Levels of Training Evaluation to evaluate the implementation of PAX Good Behavior Game training in a challenged Ohio middle school. The study explored teacher "reactions" to and perceived "learning" from the training as it relates to the middle school's goals, and…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Disadvantaged Schools, Prevention, Intervention
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