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Direct linkPeters, Ray DeV.; Bradshaw, Alison J.; Petrunka, Kelly; Nelson, Geoffrey; Herry, Yves; Craig, Wendy M.; Arnold, Robert; Parker, Kevin C. H.; Khan, Shahriar R.; Hoch, Jeffrey S.; Pancer, S. Mark; Loomis, Colleen; Belanger, Jean-Marc; Evers, Susan; Maltais, Claire; Thompson, Katherine; Rossiter, Melissa D. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2010
Although comprehensive and ecological approaches to early childhood prevention are commonly advocated, there are few examples of long-term follow-up of such programs. In this monograph, we investigate the medium- and long-term effects of an ecological, community-based prevention project for primary school children and families living in three…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Quasiexperimental Design, Prevention, Economically Disadvantaged
Wiesman, Karen Wheeler – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Funding public schools has been an ongoing struggle since the inception of the United States. Beginning with Jefferson's "A General Diffusion of Knowledge" that charged the states with properly funding public schools, to the current day legal battles that continue in states across the Union, America struggles with finding a solution to…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, Public Schools, State Programs, Economically Disadvantaged
Dobbie, Will; Fryer, Roland G., Jr. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2009
Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), which combines community investments with reform minded charter schools, is one of the most ambitious social experiments to alleviate poverty of our time. We provide the first empirical test of the causal impact of HCZ on educational outcomes, with an eye toward informing the long-standing debate whether schools alone…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Objectives, Achievement Gains, Outcomes of Education
Owens, Robert L., II – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine further, the factors at a Predominantly White College or University (PWCU) that may affect the first-year retention and six-year graduation of African-American (AA) and non-AA students. Biographical and descriptive data was obtained for each student entering Tennessee Technological University (TTU) from the…
Descriptors: African American Students, College Freshmen, School Holding Power, Graduation
Download full textBergerson, Amy Aldous; Petersen, Kari K. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2009
This study examined whether a university outreach program featuring peer mentoring and offering a social support network can impact college-going aspirations. Study participants were middle school students of color and low SES students and their university student mentors. Purposeful selection was used to identify six mentors and six proteges and…
Descriptors: Mentors, Outreach Programs, Program Effectiveness, Peer Counseling
Morgan, Anne; Nutbrown, Cathy; Hannon, Peter – British Educational Research Journal, 2009
Relatively few studies of family literacy programmes have investigated parents' experiences and whilst a number of such programmes have been specifically aimed at fathers, little is known about the involvement of fathers in programmes which target both mothers and fathers. This article reports fathers' involvement in a family literacy programme…
Descriptors: Low Income, Mothers, Economically Disadvantaged, Home Visits
Brown, Eleanor D. – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2009
This study examined persistence in the face of academic challenge for economically disadvantaged children. Participants included 103 children attending Head Start preschools, as well as their caregivers and teachers. Child tasks measured persistence in the face of academic challenge as well as emergent implicit theories of intelligence. Caregiver…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Poverty, Persistence, Economically Disadvantaged
Peer reviewedKuritz, Hyman – Educational Forum, 1971
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Objectives
Lewin, Keith M.; Lu, Wang – Online Submission, 2011
This study traces education and change over two decades in three areas, Tongzhou on the periphery of Beijing chosen as one of the richest 300 counties in 1990; Ansai in Yan'an which was one of the poorest 300 counties and a famous base for the 8th Route Army at the end of the Long March, and Zhaojue a poor Yi national minority area in the…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Poverty, Socioeconomic Status, Foreign Countries
Ransford-Kaldon, Carolyn; Flynt, E. Sutton; Ross, Cristin – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
The purpose of this study was twofold: (1) to determine the efficacy of the Leveled Literacy Intervention program (LLI) in increasing reading achievement for K-2 students and (2) to examine LLI program implementation fidelity. This study evaluated LLI in two U.S. school districts and used a mixed-method design to address the following key research…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Economically Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement, Program Implementation
Education Week, 2011
A growing number of educators around the country are turning to technology and different teaching and learning approaches to give students personalized learning experiences that mirror the customized experiences they take for granted outside of school. To meet students' individual needs, they are putting in place 1-to-1 computing programs and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education, Individualized Instruction
Miller-Adams, Michelle – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2010
The Kalamazoo Promise, announced in 2005, is an innovative college-scholarship program available to every graduate of the Kalamazoo (Michigan) Public Schools. Programs such as the Kalamazoo Promise, which is being emulated in cities across the United States, open new avenues for the acquisition of human capital regardless of income level or…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Finance, Academic Achievement
Vermont Department of Education, 2010
The annual event dropout rate describes the proportion of students who leave school each year without completing a high school program. The event dropout rates for the school year 2008-2009 of 2.04% for grades 7 through 12th and 2.89% for grades 9 through 12th are consistent with the dropout rates for the past four years. The event completion rate…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Dropout Rate, Graduation Rate, Enrollment Trends
Milot, Tristan; Ethier, Louise S.; St-Laurent, Diane; Provost, Marc A. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2010
Objective: This study assessed the mediating role of trauma symptoms in the relation between child maltreatment and behavioral problems. It is based on the postulate that child maltreatment is a severe form of chronic relational trauma that has damaging consequences on the development of children's behavioral regulation. Method: Participants were…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Child Abuse, Structural Equation Models, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Erickson, David, Ed.; Reid, Carolina, Ed.; Nelson, Lisa, Ed.; O'Shaughnessy, Anne, Ed.; Berube, Alan, Ed. – Federal Reserve System, 2008
This report--a joint effort of the Federal Reserve's Community Affairs function and the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program--examines the issue of concentrated poverty and profiles 16 high-poverty communities from across the country, including immigrant gateway, Native American, urban, and rural communities. Through these case…
Descriptors: Poverty, Economics, Economically Disadvantaged, Poverty Areas
