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Download full textKarma Sonam Rigdel; Nima Tshering – Anatolian Journal of Education, 2025
The student's academic performance has been approved to play a pivotal role in primary education. However, the factors contributing to poor academic performance among primary school students have received little attention in Bhutanese contexts. To address this gap, this qualitative study examined the perspectives of 25 class 6 primary school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Low Achievement, Elementary School Students, Psychological Patterns
Direct linkBodunrin Ifeoluwa Akinrinmade – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Hiring private tutors is causing a financial burden on parents, as they are made to pay high tutoring fees in Nigeria. Yet, Nigerian parents continue to invest heavily in financially burdensome private tutoring amid high poverty levels. This evident paradox between high poverty levels and the widespread use of financially burdensome private…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Academic Achievement, Tutors
Tugba Çelik Keskin; Derin Atay – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2025
Integrating Syrian children into the Turkish national educational system has been one of the most recent and significant discussion issues in educational research and policy making areas. With a primary objective of alleviating Syrian refugees' linguistic difficulties, a nationwide inclusive education project; Promoting Integration of Syrian Kids…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Teacher Attitudes, Refugees
Mussington, Marlon J., Sr. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Food insecurity is a problem for millions of people in the United States. In 2020, 10.5 percent of US households were food insecure, and for people of color, the numbers were even greater. With the United States' history of discrimination against Black and Brown people in areas such as housing, employment, and education, racism is clearly a root…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Food, Hunger, Weekend Programs
Mohammed, Abdul-Rahim – Global Studies of Childhood, 2023
The latest round of fiscal austerity in Ghana has meant that the feeding rate paid to the service providers of Ghana's school feeding programme is both frozen and unrealistically low. Accordingly, service providers adopt discretionary coping strategies. This qualitative case study, therefore, explores the impacts of austerity on children's school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Public Schools, Financial Problems
Chang, Lei; Lu, Hui Jing; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Skinner, Ann T.; Bornstein, Marc H.; Steinberg, Laurence; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Chen, Bin Bin; Tian, Qian; Bacchini, Dario; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Pastorelli, Concetta; Alampay, Liane Peña; Sorbring, Emma; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Oburu, Paul; Malone, Patrick S.; Di Giunta, Laura; Tirado, Liliana Maria Uribe; Tapanya, Sombat – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Safety is essential for life. To survive, humans and other animals have developed sets of psychological and physiological adaptations known as life history (LH) tradeoff strategies in response to various safety constraints. Evolutionarily selected LH strategies in turn regulate development and behavior to optimize survival under prevailing safety…
Descriptors: Safety, Physiology, Psychological Patterns, Longitudinal Studies
Santiago, Catherine DeCarlo; Bustos, Yvita; Jolie, Sarah A.; Flores Toussaint, Roxanna; Sosa, Susana S.; Raviv, Tali; Cicchetti, Colleen – School Psychology, 2021
COVID-19 has exacerbated the challenges that newcomer refugee and immigrant families face. While many of the supports that schools typically offer were disrupted by the pandemic, school-based assistance remains critical in this challenging context. In addition to education-related challenges, many newcomer families have been disproportionately…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Immigrants
Christina Mendez-Hall – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Many families with children who have learning disabilities want to send their child to a Catholic school, but often their children are turned away. This convergent parallel mixed methods study investigated whether Catholic elementary schools in Texas were serving students with disabilities and, if they were, was that decision toward inclusion…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Elementary School Students, Students with Disabilities, Catholic Schools
Duncan, S.; Levy, R.; Bradbury, A.; Braun, A.; Moss, G. – Institute of Education - London, 2021
During the COVID pandemic, schools have found new ways of working with children and, crucially, their families. This has far-reaching implications for how schools and policy-makers consider homeschool communication as a means of developing parental and community engagement in the future. The Institute of Education's project, "Learning Through…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Educational Change
Bradbury, A.; Braun, A.; Duncan, S.; Levy, R.; Moss, G. – Institute of Education - London, 2021
The pandemic has shown how important schools are as networks of support for children and families. Our project, "Learning Through Disruption," also shows that schools have a particularly vital role in addressing the needs of high poverty communities, both directly and indirectly. Yet this work goes largely unrecognised and underfunded.…
Descriptors: Poverty, Community Needs, Elementary School Students, COVID-19
Cooley, Dwight A.; Floyd, Koy A. – Administrative Issues Journal: Education, Practice, and Research, 2013
Historically, the number of public school districts in the United States has decreased despite a dramatic increase in the number of students enrolled. Although public school district consolidation has impacted districts of all sizes, since the late 1930's smaller rural districts facing dwindling community resources have merged or consolidated with…
Descriptors: School District Reorganization, School Districts, Rural Schools, Influences
Moore, Kristin Anderson; Hair, Elizabeth C.; Vandivere, Sharon; McPhee, Cameron B.; McNamara, Michelle; Ling, Thomson – Child Trends, 2006
This brief examines the factors related to depressive symptoms among mothers and explores the implications for acting out behavior in their third grade children. The authors found that children's acting out (externalizing) behavior in the third grade can be affected by a variety of difficulties in the lives of their mothers. Some of these…
Descriptors: Child Development, Mothers, Low Income, Financial Problems
Strother, Deborah Burnett, Ed. – 1991
This study of students at risk was conducted to determine who is at risk, what puts students at risk, what schools are doing to help those students, and how effective these efforts are. Data were collected on about 49,000 students and almost 10,000 teachers in over 275 schools in 85 U.S. communities, and researchers conducted case studies of 65…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Case Studies, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Feldman, Sandra – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1992
Describes effects of inadequate funding for public schools at national and local levels, critiques America 2000 educational goals, and examines larger social changes and their effects on educational institutions. Side bars cover education in rural areas, ethnic diversity in Los Angeles (California), and American Federation of Teachers funding…
Descriptors: Children, Economic Factors, Educational Finance, Educational Objectives
