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"You Want the Best for Your Kids": Improving Educational Outcomes for Children Living in Poverty through Parental Engagement
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Sime, Daniela; Sheridan, Marion – Educational Research, 2014
Background: Existing evidence suggests a relationship between family social contexts, family relationships and interactions, children's social and cognitive development and educational outcomes. Interventions that assist families in relation to parenting and supporting children's development can have positive effects on both parents' skills and…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Poverty, Parent Participation, Foreign Countries
Moving on from Free School Meals: National Census Data Can Describe the Socio-Economic Background of the Intake of Each School in England
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Styles, B. – Educational Research, 2008
Background: Data for England from the national census can provide the socio-economic background of individual pupils and therefore the intake of schools. In many respects, this is more useful than the conventional measure of "free school meals", which has historically been used in the UK as a proxy measure for disadvantage. Prior to the…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Socioeconomic Background, Census Figures, Disadvantaged
Social Deprivation, School-Level Achievement and Special Educational Needs.
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Croll, Paul – Educational Research, 2002
Data from interviews with 299 teachers in 46 English primary schools revealed that the correlation between free school meals and achievement and between free school meals and special educational needs may stem from teacher judgments. The very poorest schools with the lowest achievement have substantially higher levels of special needs identified…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries