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National Center for Homeless Education at SERVE, 2013
Homelessness is a devastating circumstance for any child or youth, but for youth on their own, the stresses of homelessness are multiplied. The myriad of challenges faced by youth experiencing homelessness on their own puts these students at risk of dropping out or school failure. Subtitle VII-B of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Latchkey Children, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
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Hagan, John; Foster, Holly – Sociology of Education, 2012
In some American schools, about a fifth of the fathers have spent time in prison during their child's primary education. We examine how variation across schools in the aggregation and concentration of the mass imprisonment of fathers is associated with their own children's intergenerational educational outcomes and "spills over" into the…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Educational Attainment, Fathers, Institutionalized Persons