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Spies, Tracy G.; Morgan, Joseph John; Matsuura, Miki – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2014
The relationship between students' living in poverty and academic underachievement challenges schools across the nation. Poverty is particularly prevalent among children with disabilities. One detrimental condition of poverty that directly affects student development and academic achievement is food insecurity and hunger. With the increasing…
Descriptors: Hunger, Poverty, Academic Achievement, Underachievement
Sherman, Arloc – 1994
A quarter of children under age 6 are poor. Poverty has a multiple and cumulative effect on children, regardless of race, family structure, or parental education level. As part of the Children's Defense Fund's Costs of Child Poverty Research Project, this report shows the effects of poverty on children. The Children's Defense Fund's stated mission…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Rearing, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs