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Harshini Shah; Louisa Tarullo – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2023
Head Start programs engage parents to support children's growth from birth through age 5 through services that promote early learning and development, health, and family well-being. These programs specifically seek to assist families with low incomes and families facing a variety of other adversities. To foster positive child and family outcomes,…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Preschool Children, Young Children
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Aiwen Niu; Changchun Gao; Chenhui Yu – SAGE Open, 2025
Entrepreneurship at the base of the pyramid has profound implications for economic development in impoverished regions. Building upon Timmons' three-factor theory of entrepreneurship and the resource conservation theory, this study adopts the transition-persistence strategy of entrepreneurs from lower social classes as the focal point, with…
Descriptors: Poverty, Entrepreneurship, Disadvantaged, Social Class
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Marisol T. Maimad; Helina Jean P. Dupa; Jhonnel P. Villegas – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2023
The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) is a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program to alleviate socio-economic conditions in the Philippines, addressing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1 (No Poverty) and 4 (Quality Education). It attempts to address poverty, which is a risk factor to education among Filipinos. However, the program…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, Academic Achievement, Poverty
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Rabia Majeed; Javed Iqbal; Zahoor ul Haq; Muhammad Faisal Shahzad – Evaluation Review, 2025
Maternal mortality, largely stemming from complications during pregnancy and childbirth, impacts poor expecting women with limited healthcare access in rural Pakistan. Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs), commonly implemented in developing nations, are designed to improve the well-being of vulnerable populations by focusing on health and education.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Access to Health Care, Empowerment
Marina Bassi; Bruno Besbas; Lelys I. Dinarte Diaz; Saravana Ravindran; Ana Reynoso – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2025
Using a randomized control trial, this paper studies an at-scale preschool construction program that serves poor communities in rural Mozambique. We show that the program significantly increased preschool enrollment in treated communities by 73 percentage points, from a small base of 2 percent of children enrolled in preschool in control…
Descriptors: Construction Programs, Preschools, Foreign Countries, Rural Schools
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
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Tang, Chia Wei; Nguyen, Hoai Than – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2023
This study focused on evaluating the project on vocational training for rural laborers in Vietnam with respect to its effectiveness in employment creation and poverty reduction among rural laborers. The investigation took the form of a case study; official policy statistics, a survey of 300 project participants and interviews with eight vocational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Vocational Education
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Cheyney-Collante, Kristi – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2023
The purpose of this case study was to investigate a segment of a data set collected as part of a larger ethnographic study exploring the early language and literacy practices of one unique preschool programme, selected for its unusually high outcomes for children in typically underserved populations. The original study explored administrators'…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy, Program Effectiveness
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A. Chris Torres – AERA Open, 2023
This study uses framing theory and the concept of causal stories to examine beliefs about causes and solutions to improving chronically low-performing schools in response to Michigan's school turnaround policy. Across cases, policymakers and district leaders assigned most responsibility to poor leadership, poverty, and chronic educator turnover as…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Educational Policy, Administrator Attitudes, Public Officials
Jonathan Collins; Erica Horsley; Todd Call – Utah State Board of Education, 2024
During the 2017 General Session, the Legislature passed House Bill 212, "Incentive for Effective Teachers in High Poverty Schools," which provides an annual salary bonus to eligible teachers in high poverty schools. This report is provided to the Education Interim Committee to evaluate the extent to which a salary bonus improves…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Poverty, Compensation (Remuneration), Teacher Salaries
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Kristy A. Anderson; Melissa Radey; Jessica E. Rast; Anne M. Roux; Lindsay Shea – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Purpose: We used data from the National Survey of Children's Health to (1) examine differences in economic hardship and safety net program use after the implementation of federal relief efforts, and (2) assess whether the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated autism-based disparities in hardship and program use. Methods: We examined five dimensions of…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Poverty, Hunger
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June O'Sullivan; Saudaa Nadat; Leila Roberts – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
This paper describes how eight London nurseries examined whether better use of bicycles would strengthen children's physical activity as a step to reducing child obesity. The nurseries are part of a social enterprise which offers one-third of the 4200 nursery places to children from poor and disadvantaged families/communities where rates of child…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Activities, Obesity, Child Health
Harshini Shah; Louisa Tarullo – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2023
The Head Start REACH: Strengthening Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement Approaches with Families project is focused on understanding the eligibility, recruitment, selection, enrollment, and attendance/retention (ERSEA) approaches that Head Start programs use to engage Head Start--eligible families experiencing adversities. One of the…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Infants, Preschool Children, Poverty
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Mohammad Safayet Khan; Erum Mariam; Nasrin Akter Akhi; Esrat Jahan; Sakila Yesmin – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2024
"Pashe Achhi" is a telecommunication model that emerged out of the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh to provide support to 0- to 5-year-old children and their caregivers through mobile-to-mobile phone calls. It is a caregiver-child facing and/or only caregiver focused, low-resource, low-tech model that constitutes a 20-minute phone call.…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Young Children, Program Effectiveness
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Miller, Jan; Vick, Courtney – Alabama Journal of Educational Leadership, 2022
The purpose of this study was to determine if participation in the Community Action Poverty Simulation (CAPS) had an impact on rural educator candidates' and practicing rural educators' attitudes toward poverty (ATP). The group of rural educator candidates are students pursuing an undergraduate degree in education at a small, rural university in…
Descriptors: Community Action, Poverty, Simulation, Rural Education
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