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Robin Clausen – Policy Futures in Education, 2025
Direct certification has been described by policymakers and academics as a tool which may replace National School Lunch Program (NSLP) eligibility data (Douglas Geverdt, National Center for Education Statistics, personal communication, August 28, 2023). It suggests a policy future in which we change the metric of how we identify disadvantage. On…
Descriptors: Eligibility, Lunch Programs, Educational Policy, Identification
Michelle Spiegel; Leah R. Clark; Thurston Domina; Vitaly Radsky; Paul Y. Yoo; Andrew Penner – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2025
Many educational policies hinge on the valid measurement of student economic disadvantage at the school level. Measures based on free and reduced-price lunch enrollment are used widely. However, recent research raises questions about their reliability, particularly following the introduction of universal free lunch in certain schools and…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Economically Disadvantaged, Lunch Programs, Poverty
Baker, Erin Ruth; Huang, Rong; Battista, Carmela; Liu, Qingyang – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023
This short-term longitudinal study examined how economically-impoverished children's moral reasoning predicts specific aggressive subtypes. Children (N = 106, M[subscript age] = 52.78 months, 51% boys, ethnically diverse backgrounds) from urban Head Start programs completed a structured story-interview pertaining to moral reasoning and judgement…
Descriptors: Social Services, Federal Programs, Young Children, Moral Development
Jiying Ling; Autumn Ashley; Nagwan Zahry; Tsui-Sui A. Kao; Charis L. Wahman; Kenneth Resnicow; Lorraine B. Robbins; Jean M. Kerver; Nanhua Zhang – School Mental Health, 2025
Mindfulness-based interventions are increasingly recognized for their positive impact on children's physical, mental, emotional, and behavioral health. However, no mindfulness-based lifestyle interventions have focused on improving both the physical and mental well-being of economically marginalized preschoolers. Therefore, this one-group study…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Intervention, Life Style, Physical Health
Fitts, Jessica J.; Aber, Mark S.; Allen, Nicole E. – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2019
Background: The majority of youth with mental health needs do not receive therapy services to treat their disorder, and unmet need is particularly high among racial and ethnic minorities and economically disadvantaged families in the population at large. Investigating whether these patterns emerge within systems of care can reveal opportunities to…
Descriptors: Therapy, Mental Health, Race, Ethnicity
Kidwell, Kelley M.; Hyde, Luke W. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2016
Heterogeneity between and within people necessitates the need for sequential personalized interventions to optimize individual outcomes. Personalized or adaptive interventions (AIs) are relevant for diseases and maladaptive behavioral trajectories when one intervention is not curative and success of a subsequent intervention may depend on…
Descriptors: Intervention, Individualized Programs, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems
Robert Cobb Jr. – Journal of Research Initiatives, 2020
This paper outlines an inclusion initiative's conceptual framework for programs serving secondary students from economically challenged communities. It proposes distance learning technologies to afford these students access to learning resources, experiences, and environments in STEM. This paper addresses concerns with a complex duality of…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Economically Disadvantaged, Distance Education, Educational Technology
Lawson, Hal A.; Durand, Francesca T.; Wilcox, Kristen Campbell; Gregory, Karen M.; Schiller, Kathryn S.; Zuckerman, Sarah J. – Journal of School Leadership, 2017
This mixed-method multiple case study investigated nine elementary schools. Six "odds-beating schools," which serve relatively high numbers of economically disadvantaged children, achieved higher than predicted performance on state assessments when compared with three typically performing schools. The overarching research question…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Elementary Schools, Elementary School Students, Economically Disadvantaged
Coombs Richardson, Rita; Vafa, Sherry; Litton, Freddie – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2017
By providing early access to education, early childhood and community-based programs are helping to close the achievement gap prevalent among children from impoverished homes.
Descriptors: Poverty, Access to Education, Achievement Gap, School Community Relationship
Shah, Nirvi – Education Week, 2012
School districts have resorted to hiring debt collectors, employing constables, and swapping out standard meals for scaled-back versions to try to coerce parents to pay off school lunch debt that, in recent years, appears to have surged as the result of a faltering economy and better record-keeping. While the average school lunch costs just about…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Debt (Financial), School Districts, Economically Disadvantaged
McMurrey, Allen L. – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 2014
This paper takes a critical conceptual look at education policy and practice from the passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act in 1965 to the present. The paper examines the roots of current United States educational policies, and shows that, in some cases, well-intentioned efforts have had a negative impact on vulnerable populations…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation
Scully-Russ, Ellen – European Journal of Training and Development, 2013
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to review the policy literature on green jobs and green jobs training in the USA and to present findings of a qualitative study on the start-up of two Energy Training Partnerships (ETP) funded by the US Department of Labour to train workers for green jobs. Design/methodology/approach: The paper includes a review…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Economic Development, Labor Market, Economically Disadvantaged
Villa, Valentine M.; Wallace, Steven P.; Bagdasaryan, Sofya; Aranda, Maria P. – Gerontologist, 2012
Purpose: As the Baby-Boom generation enters the ranks of the elderly adults over the next 4 decades, the United States will witness an unprecedented growth in racial/ethnic diversity among the older adult population. Hispanics will comprise 20% of the next generation of older adults, representing the largest minority population aged 65 years and…
Descriptors: Obesity, Mexican Americans, Economically Disadvantaged, Health
de la Garza, Katy – Global Education Review, 2016
This study analyzed challenges faced by teachers in rural and Indigenous schools, and the impact of pedagogical mentorship in contributing towards more culturally and linguistically relevant education. Using a case from Guatemala, this article explored pedagogical mentorship as an in-service teacher training resource for multi-lingual and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inservice Teacher Education, Mentors, Teacher Attitudes
Lapayese, Yvette V.; Aldana, Ursula S.; Lara, Eduardo – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2014
This article discusses Teach for America (TFA), one of the alternative education programs of the U.S. Department of Education designed to address the achievement gap of students of color in the country. Topics explored in this research include issues of racism and race in the recruitment and support of its teacher corp; how TFA educators of color…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Achievement Gap, Federal Programs, Racial Bias