Schools and Poverty
Do some schools narrow the gap? Differential school effectiveness by ethnicity, gender, poverty and prior achievement
... in schools in challenging or socio-economically disadvantaged ...improving schools may have limited success unless they also tackle poverty, low aspirations, the home learning environment and other ...
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Childhood poverty in Wales and its implications for schools: a survey of trainee teachers’ perceptions
... with poverty is a high-profile policy issue in ...child poverty by 2020 a range of anti-poverty measures has been introduced by the Welsh government, focusing not only on a route out of ...
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Seeing disadvantage in schools: exploring student teachers’ perceptions of poverty and disadvantage using visual pedagogy
... The setting for this pedagogical research enquiry is a teaching-intensive university in a densely urban context in East London, which has long been the area of the city where new immigrants to England first settle. The ...
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Closing Poverty-Related Attainment Gaps in Scotland's Schools : What Works?
... Poverty-related attainment gaps are an issue for every school and every local authority in Scotland. There are many different ways to tackle this issue, from greater parental involvement to linking schools ...
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Do some schools narrow the gap? : differential school effectiveness by ethnicity, gender, poverty and prior attainment
... improving schools may have limited success unless they also tackle poverty, low aspirations, the home learning environment and other factors outside ...
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Ecological School Counseling in High-Poverty Elementary Schools: Counselors' Backgrounds and Perceptions Regarding the Effects of Poverty, Importance of Advocacy and School-Based Mental Health Programs.
... in poverty with those of other elementary school counselors in an effort to provide a broader understanding of the issues related to working with mental health issues in high poverty ...high-poverty ...
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Case studies of local practice to reduce child poverty
... high schools in Edinburgh now have an identified a 1 in 5 lead; 46 out of 86 primary schools and five out of nine special ...seven schools (three high schools, three primary and one nursery ...
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Factors that Influence Effective Veteran Teachers' Decisions to Remain in High-Poverty Elementary Schools.
... own role in providing the support necessary to retain effective veteran teachers, all three principals emphasized the value of system-wide staff development, curriculum support, and resource acquisition in keeping ...
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GibsonHughesHassell_WeWillNotBeSilent_041618.pdf
... nation’s schools (Southern Poverty Law Center 2016), we worked with students and alumni of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science to develop a publicly ...
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Ryan_final_submission_w_signed_title.pdf
... Several of the studies addressed TAPS, cessation, and secondhand smoke. As suspected from the literature review, the studies in this review show that TAPS influences tobacco use in this population. Owning a branded ...
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Establishment of the technological factors contributing to the sustainability of the Farmers Field School (FFS) in Busia County, Western Kenya: A Case of Farmers Field Schools in Busia County
... Field Schools have been in operation as an alternative Agricultural extension approach from South East Asia, Philippines under Integrated Pest Management (IPM) from ...Field Schools funded within the study ...
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Challenges of Student Teachers Placed in Poverty K12 Schools
... in poverty schools, prompted faculty to expose program students to diverse communities early and often in the preparation ...in poverty than those who did not have such prior ...local poverty ...
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The tipping point of transformation : analyzing school reform efforts in low-performing, high-poverty schools
... Not all class size reduction plans have proven successful, however. In the mid-1990s, California adopted a program for grades kindergarten through third, which capped class sizes at twenty (Futernick, 2007). ...
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50 Years After the War on Poverty: Successes Should Inspire the Next Bold Steps for Poor Children
... of poverty among young adults and children of color, who will be a majority of all Americans younger than age 18 by ...high-poverty schools (disproportionately attended by children of color) and low- ...
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A Qualitative Exploration of Factors Contributing to Teach For America Teachers Remaining in a Rural, High-Poverty School System Beyond Their Two-Year Contracts.
... Several of the obstacles the teachers named related to the school administration. Perhaps the most glaring and troubling of these was the claim of feeling disrespected by members of the administration on more than one ...
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Child poverty: The shocking ins and outs
... Vulnerability rate is extreme for 45.95 percent children and severe for 40.59 percent children. Those children who suffer from extreme form of vulnerability reported that they encounter risks and shocks of myriad forms ...
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Poverty, Attainment and Wellbeing : Making a Difference to the Lives of Children and Young People : Research Brief : Schools Focus
... by schools alone or schools in isolation of other public services [3, 16, ...[12]. Poverty is a structural issue but we all have a responsibility individually and collectively towards eradicating ...
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An Attempt to Model Factors Affecting the School’s Dropout Phenomenon in Yemen
... Abstract: Due to many reasons, the dropout problem at the Yemeni schools is escalating tremendously. This study provides an in-depth analysis on school dropouts through analyzing all available and relative raw ...
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Factors That Contributes To Repetition In Secondary Schools In Meru South Sub County, Tharaka Nithi County, Kenya
... better schools (Ngware et al, ...highlights poverty,early pregnancies and marriages,HIV/AIDS,drug abuse and low self esteem to be some of the factors contributing to wastage in form of ...
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A rapid evidence assessment : investigating the drop in attainment during the transition phase with a particular focus on child poverty
... schools. It was part of a two-year Neighbourhood Renewal Fund project aimed at sustainably improving transition across the author’s Borough. The achieved sample size is 1,673, a 83% response rate on the total ...
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