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Wright-McAllister, Saedra – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Managing behavior is a challenge at home and school for many families in disadvantaged areas. When students get to school, it can become an increased or heightened problem due to the school managing hundreds and in many cases thousands of students per day and teachers managing on average between 25-30 students during every part of their day. The…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Economically Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Schools
Damashek, Amy; Ross, Denise; Corlis, McKenna; Uwayo, Margaret; Westine, Carl – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
During early childhood, economically disadvantaged children can experience challenges that affect their social-emotional, language, and physical health development across the lifespan. Psychologists have tested several interventions to address developmental problems during early childhood, but information about the degree to which economically…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Intervention, Social Emotional Learning
Hall, James; Sammons, Pam; Smees, Rebecca; Sylva, Kathy; Evangelou, Maria; Goff, Jenny; Smith, Teresa; Smith, George – Oxford Review of Education, 2019
UK Sure Start Children's Centres (SSCCs) aim to lessen behavioural disorders yet we lack evidence concerning how this is achieved. This study evaluates one possible mechanism: improved home learning environments (HLEs). Data come from a longitudinal study of 2568 families and children recruited at a mean age of 14 months from 117 SSCCs in England…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Intervention, Behavior Disorders, Family Environment
Blitz, Lisa V.; Yull, Denise; Clauhs, Matthew – Urban Education, 2020
Decades of federal economic policies that have concentrated poverty into isolated communities have devastated urban education, and expose youth and families to high stress and trauma. Disproportionately negative outcomes for students of color and those who are economically disadvantaged can be understood as manifestations of negative racial school…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Trauma, Educational Environment, Poverty
Noltemeyer, Amity; Sansosti, Frank J. – Contemporary School Psychology, 2012
This exploratory study examined (a) Integrated Systems Model (ISM) implementation levels, and (b) the effect of implementation of the academic and behavioral components of ISM on student academic outcomes. Participants included 2,660 students attending six suburban elementary schools. Hierarchical linear regression was conducted using a control…
Descriptors: Integrated Curriculum, Models, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students
Ben-Porath, Sigal – Theory and Research in Education, 2013
The expectation that schools resuscitate civic virtues and create a vibrant civic and public sphere competes with a more powerful contemporary demand on schools, namely, that they generate equal opportunity and mobility, especially for poor and minority youth. This equal opportunity is framed solely in the context of grades on standardized tests.…
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Civics, Equal Education, Academic Achievement
Shook, Alison C. – Preventing School Failure, 2012
Student behavior problems contribute to poor academic achievement and poor teacher retention. This study investigated preservice teachers' dispositions to implement positive and proactive strategies for managing behavior in the general education elementary urban classroom. The author interviewed 19 preservice teachers in a large urban school…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Preservice Teachers, Urban Schools, Behavior Problems
Sheeber, Lisa B.; Seeley, John R.; Feil, Edward G.; Davis, Betsy; Sorensen, Erik; Kosty, Derek B.; Lewinsohn, Peter M. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2012
Objective: Develop and pilot an Internet-facilitated cognitive-behavioral treatment intervention for depression, tailored to economically disadvantaged mothers of young children. Method: Mothers (N = 70) of children enrolled in Head Start, who reported elevated levels of depressive symptoms, were randomized to either the 8-session,…
Descriptors: Intervention, Parent Child Relationship, Questionnaires, Depression (Psychology)
Heller, Sara; Pollack, Harold A.; Ander, Roseanna; Ludwig, Jens – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2013
Improving the long-term life outcomes of disadvantaged youth remains a top policy priority in the United States, although identifying successful interventions for adolescents--particularly males--has proven challenging. This paper reports results from a large randomized controlled trial of an intervention for disadvantaged male youth grades 7-10…
Descriptors: Prevention, Violence, Dropouts, Randomized Controlled Trials

Stoesz, David – Society, 1997
Examines the political movement to alter welfare behavior through changes in welfare reform and discusses the outcomes of several welfare reform initiatives. Explores welfare-to-work; Learnfare; and Learning, Earning, and Parenting. Also discusses research in social engineering efforts involving child support enforcement and time limits.…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Child Support, Early Parenthood, Economically Disadvantaged
Bates, Eleanor Ann – Camping Magazine, 1986
Describes experiment to include children with health and behavior problems in a residential camp for economically disadvantaged children. Discusses special health care provisions and staff training. Presents four case studies of campers. Offers lessons learned from the experiment and plans for evaluation and followup. (LFL)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Camping, Children
Milwaukee Public Schools, WI. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction. – 1966
The study is a project undertaken by the school psychologists of the Milwaukee Public Schools in order to evaluate the psychological services provided to primary and secondary school children from areas of economic deprivation who are experiencing learning or behavioral problems. Research design was of the test-retest variety; specifically, I.Q.…
Descriptors: Attendance, Behavior Modification, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Research

Inkster, J. A.; McLaughlin, T. F. – B.C. Journal of Special Education, 1993
A token reinforcement program with microcomputer free time as the reinforcer was implemented to decrease the tardiness of a middle school economically disadvantaged student. The microcomputer time was a very effective reinforcer; school personnel reported improved school attendance and a decrease in administrative discipline related to tardiness;…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Case Studies
Molina, Brooke S. G.; Smith, Bradley H.; Pelham, William E., Jr. – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2005
School-wide behavior management systems can improve academic performance and behavior in middle schools, and they should have positive effects on students with ADHD. Unfortunately, evidence-based, school-wide behavior management systems have not been widely adopted because of problems with feasibility, acceptability, and sustainability. The…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Intervention, Behavior Problems, Behavior Modification
Hyland, Patricia K.; Keaton, Constance J. – 1994
The intent of this study was to reduce the numbers of off-task behaviors of a group of 32 sixth-grade students in an economically disadvantaged, urban, junior high school. The subjects of the study were given the materials (paper, the mathematics book, and pencils) and seated before the tardy bell. Following teacher graphing of each of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Modification, Behavior Patterns, Disadvantaged Youth
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