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Peer reviewedRobertson, Donna Friedman – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 1998
Describes a qualitative research project examining homelessness's effects on children's schooling, highlighting a South Carolina intervention program's success. Research disclosed an informal homelessness "caste system," the political unpopularity of providing homeless services, homeless kids' high rates of academic failure and problem…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Access to Education, Administrator Attitudes, Behavior Problems
Download full textSt. Pierre, Robert; And Others – 1993
The Even Start program represents an innovative combination of programs for adult basic education, parenting education, and early childhood education. Focusing on parents and children as a unit, Even Start projects have three interrelated goals: (1) to help parents become full partners in the education of their children; (2) to assist children in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Adult Basic Education, Compensatory Education
St. Pierre, Robert; Ricciuti, Anne; Tao, Fumiyo; Creps, Cindy; Swartz, Janet; Lee, Wang; Parsad, Amanda; Rimdzius, Tracy – 2003
The Even Start Literacy Program, established in 1989, aims to simultaneously improve the literacy of children and their parents through (1) early childhood education; (2) parenting education; (3) adult education; and (4) parent-child joint literacy activities. The report details findings from the third national Even Start evaluation. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Adult Basic Education, Compensatory Education
