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Stroub, K.; Yin, M.; Cigarroa Kennedy, C. – Houston Education Research Consortium, 2021
The Wraparound Services Department connects students and their families with non-academic community resources that support the students' ability to learn in school. The district currently partners with over 200 community organizations to offer wraparound services across 210 campuses. Wraparound Services Specialists in these campuses work with…
Descriptors: Integrated Services, Community Programs, Needs Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Erica Holt-White; Carl Cullinane; Rebecca Montacute – Sutton Trust, 2025
Opportunity is not evenly spread across the country. A young person's socio-economic background -- including the income level of their family, their parents' educational qualifications, and their family's wealth -- all play a critical role in shaping their future. But as well as variations between families and across socio-economic groups, Britain…
Descriptors: Social Mobility, Futures (of Society), Family Income, Educational Attainment
Barnett, W. Steven; Jung, Kwanghee – National Institute for Early Education Research, 2021
Early learning experiences at home and in classrooms build the foundations for children's later success in school and life. The pandemic has upended home life and preschool programs, making it more challenging for both parents and communities to provide optimal learning experiences for young children. These changes are likely to have important…
Descriptors: Pandemics, Preschool Children, COVID-19, Learning Experience
Morrisroe, Joe – National Literacy Trust, 2014
Since 2008, the financial crisis has had a profound social and economic impact on the UK's most vulnerable communities. Literacy influences individual capability in all spheres of life. In times of economic instability, low literacy makes individuals and communities more vulnerable to inequality, increasing the risk of social exclusion and…
Descriptors: Literacy, Foreign Countries, Financial Exigency, Risk
Hudson, John; Kühner, Stefan – UNICEF, 2016
This Report Card presents an overview of inequalities in child well-being in 41 countries of the European Union (EU) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It focuses on 'bottom-end inequality' -- the gap between children at the bottom and those in the middle -- and addresses the question 'how far behind are…
Descriptors: Children, Child Health, Well Being, Life Satisfaction
Current Population Reports, 1987
This report presents statistics on social and economic characteristics of the population below the poverty level in 1985 based on the March 1986 Current Population Survey (CPS). The data in the report consist of cross classifications of poverty status by such characteristics as age, race, sex, family relationship, educational attainment, work…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Disadvantaged Youth, Economic Factors, Economically Disadvantaged
Child Trends, Inc., Washington, DC. – 2002
Noting that the great majority of Americans will become parents at some point in their lives, this report uses data from 13 federal or privately-collected nationally-representative studies or other data sources to present a comprehensive statistical picture of how mothers and fathers in America feel about parenting, how they parent, and how they…
Descriptors: Abortions, Birth Rate, Child Care, Child Custody
Fields, Jason; Smith, Kristin; Bass, Loretta E.; Lugaila, Terry – 2001
This report presents findings on the well-being of American children from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), a longitudinal study conducted at 4 month intervals by the U.S. Census Bureau. Data were collected in fall 1994 and include a variety of indicators to portray children's experiences while growing up, such as differences…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development, Children, Day Care