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Murnane, Richard J. – William T. Grant Foundation, 2021
Among the many troubling legacies of centuries of slavery and discrimination in the United States are extraordinary race-based inequalities in life chances. Black children grow up in families with much lower income and wealth, on average, than White children. They are more likely than White children to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Intervention, Racial Differences, African American Students
Popkin, Susan J.; Runes, Charmaine; Anderson, Theresa; McDaniel, Marla; Coffey, Amelia; Okoli, Adaeze; Gaddy, Marcus; Spauster, Patrick – Urban Institute, 2019
The Annie E. Casey Foundation launched Family-Centered Community Change (FCCC) in 2012 to support three local partnerships seeking to help parents and children in high-poverty neighborhoods succeed together. These partnerships, located in Buffalo, New York; Columbus, Ohio; and San Antonio, Texas, are each developing a more integrated set of…
Descriptors: Community Change, Poverty, Neighborhoods, Low Income
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Bullough, Robert V., Jr.; Hall-Kenyon, Kendra M. – Urban Education, 2015
Federal policy changes for Head Start (HS) elevate the importance of measured academic performance over other traditional program aims, particularly those associated with the social-emotional development of children. Concerned about the possible effects of these changes on children, based on observations and interviews, detailed portraits of…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Preschool Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Academic Achievement
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Tabucanon, Mario T.; Tanaka, Aurea Christine; Aipanjiguly, Sampreethi – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2011
To celebrate the two-year anniversary of the founding of ProSPER.Net--the Promotion of Sustainability in Postgraduate Education and Research Network--members convened on 5-9 July 2010 in Shanghai, China, at a meeting hosted by Tongji University, a founding member. ProSPER.Net is an alliance of 21 higher education institutions in the Asia-Pacific…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development
Gencer, Arin – Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2014
Nearly half of the nation's families with young children struggle to make ends meet. A new KIDS COUNT policy report makes the case for creating opportunity for families by addressing the needs of parents and their children simultaneously. "Creating Opportunity for Families: A Two-Generation Approach" describes a new approach to reducing…
Descriptors: Poverty Programs, Family Programs, Early Childhood Education, Program Descriptions
United Nations Children's Fund, New York, NY. – 2000
This report describes how children bear the brunt of poverty and explains why they are central to poverty reduction in developing nations. The report also illustrates UNICEF's support for the process of improving access to, and quality of, health care, education, water and sanitation, and child protection. It describes how the participation of the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Children, Childrens Rights, Developing Nations
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Wharf, Brian – Child Welfare, 1995
Identifies the major themes that have emerged in this special issue on child welfare in Canada, and presents a critique of the policies and practices now dominating the Canadian child welfare enterprise. Outlines the changes required to move child welfare from its residual stance into an enterprise that develops a capacity for innovative practice.…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Family Programs, Foreign Countries, Government Role
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Galletta, Anne; Jones, Vanessa – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2010
Our article is based on a study of our integration of social foundations coursework with filmmaking and participatory action research, bringing teacher candidates and middle and high school students together. The project was carried out in partnership between an urban university and two nearby public schools within a Midwestern city known for high…
Descriptors: Poverty, Urban Universities, Action Research, Nonprint Media
Children's Defense Fund, Washington, DC. – 2003
Asserting that President Bush's proposal to shift responsibility for Head Start to the states would allow the federal government to abandon its promise to truly give children a head start, this report, with accompanying executive summary, outlines what is known about children receiving Head Start services and how the program addresses their needs.…
Descriptors: Budgets, Childhood Needs, Children, Client Characteristics (Human Services)
Scarupa, Harriet J. – 2003
The overarching mission of the Child Trends organization is to improve the lives of children and families by providing research-based information to inform policies and programs affecting children's lives. This annual report details the organization's accomplishments for the year 2002. The report begins with a letter from the president and the…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Children, Family Support, Information Dissemination
Germanis, Peter, Ed.; Bavier, Richard, Ed. – 1987
About half of the first part of a 4-part compendium of information about low income assistance programs is presented in this document (the rest of part 1 and the other 3 parts of the compendium are presented in volume 3 of supplement 1 of this series). Part 1 contains detailed information about 59 major federally supported public assistance…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Federal State Relationship
Scarupa, Harriet J. – 2002
Child Trends is a organization with the overarching mission of improving the lives of children and families by providing research-based information to inform policy and programs that affect children's lives and their future prospects. This annual report details the organization's accomplishments for the year 2001. The report begins with a letter…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Children, Early Parenthood, Fathers
Lowe, Elaine, Ed. – 2002
This report compiles the proceedings from the third national forum of the Canadian Child Care Federation, held in November 2001, which provided an opportunity for early childhood educators, practitioners, and researchers to share knowledge, learn from each other, and network with colleagues. The agenda included 4 keynote speeches, 30 workshops on…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Development, Child Health, Children
Garrison, John W., II; Landim, Leilah – Grassroots Development, 1995
The Citizens' Campaign Against Hunger and Poverty and For Life is a nongovernmental organization in Brazil that recruited and organized more than three million volunteers to distribute food baskets, support gardening and water projects, provide basic health care, create jobs, assist homeless children, and encourage local and state governments to…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Development, Developing Nations, Economic Development
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Robertson, Donna Friedman – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 1998
Describes a qualitative research project examining homelessness's effects on children's schooling, highlighting a South Carolina intervention program's success. Research disclosed an informal homelessness "caste system," the political unpopularity of providing homeless services, homeless kids' high rates of academic failure and problem…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Access to Education, Administrator Attitudes, Behavior Problems
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