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Direct linkEducation Week, 2007
"Quality Counts 2007" begins to track state efforts to create seamless education systems from early childhood to the world of work. This special issue of "Education Week" includes the following articles: (1) Improving Children's Chances (Lynn Olson); (2) Spanning a Lifetime (Christopher B. Swanson); (3) Breaking the Cycle of Poverty (Lynn Olson);…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Academic Achievement, Accountability
Peer reviewedNathan, Richard P. – Journal of Negro Education, 1989
Summarizes themes of welfare reform in America and policy shifts that have resulted in the introduction of state-focused workfare programs. (MW)
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Employment Services, Poverty Programs, Social Agencies
Peer reviewedFitchen, Janet M. – Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 1991
Explores the economic and demographic factors fueling rural homelessness, based on field research in scattered rural communities. Data were collected by interviewing low-income families and local service providers and from community agency and school records. Suggests strategies for preventing and responding to homelessness that would be…
Descriptors: Crisis Intervention, Economically Disadvantaged, Family Relationship, Federal Programs
Peer reviewedCrump, Jeff R. – Journal of Geography, 1997
Describes a college-level class that studies the geography of poverty in Illinois and uses these findings as a basis for classroom discussions and exercises concerning poverty. Empirical evidence suggest that poverty levels are higher in rural areas rather than in urban areas. Discusses possible reasons and implications. (MJP)
Descriptors: Alienation, Economic Factors, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Trends
