Publication Date
In 2025 | 5 |
Since 2024 | 46 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 131 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 256 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 619 |
Descriptor
Source
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
Audience
Practitioners | 29 |
Researchers | 28 |
Teachers | 17 |
Policymakers | 11 |
Administrators | 3 |
Counselors | 2 |
Community | 1 |
Media Staff | 1 |
Location
United Kingdom | 47 |
United Kingdom (England) | 47 |
South Africa | 46 |
Australia | 32 |
Romania | 32 |
Canada | 22 |
California | 21 |
New York | 21 |
India | 20 |
United States | 16 |
Michigan | 15 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Does not meet standards | 3 |
Kochanska, Grazyna; Goffin, Kathryn C. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2017
Suor et al. (2017) present a compelling new evolutionary framework that offers an alternative interpretation of the well-established findings of cognitive deficits in children raised in harsh early environments. They argue that such findings do not convey a complete picture of those children's cognitive development, because children's cognition…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Social Development, Emotional Development, Personality Traits
Stange, Mathew; Smyth, Jolene D.; Olson, Kristen – Field Methods, 2016
Although researchers can easily select probability samples of addresses using the U.S. Postal Service's Delivery Sequence File, randomly selecting respondents within households for surveys remains challenging. Researchers often place within-household selection instructions, such as the next or last birthday methods, in survey cover letters to…
Descriptors: Mail Surveys, Research Methodology, Family (Sociological Unit), Community Surveys
Maila, Precious; Ross, Eleanor – South African Journal of Education, 2018
While education has been recognised as a route out of poverty, for many black South Africans, equality of opportunity and access to quality post-school education are often hampered by lack of resources and the lingering legacy of apartheid. The main focus of this study is on learners' perceptions in the disadvantaged rural community of Siyabuswa,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Environment, Disadvantaged Youth, Access to Education
Saneka, Nora E.; de Witt, Marike – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2019
Background: Social and economic aspirations held by parents can reflect a desire for their children to learn English as a second language. Bilingual education has the potential for empowering traditionally disadvantaged groups, particularly through competence in English, a language that positions identity with power, privilege and status, thus…
Descriptors: Barriers, Native Language, English (Second Language), Young Children
Torian, Sarah; West, Alexandra; Williams, Janelle – Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2019
Since 2001, the Annie E. Casey Foundation has been working with Atlanta's Southside communities to transform high-poverty city neighborhoods and help low-income families and children succeed. While some progress is being made, the gap between Atlanta's haves and have-nots remains immense. This report -- which is a follow-up to Casey's…
Descriptors: Poverty, Disadvantaged Environment, Barriers, Minority Groups
Schippers, Vicky – Multicultural Education, 2014
It is a sad fact that children born into poverty are far less likely to perform well in school and to finish school. Their inadequate schooling then negatively affects their degree of economic success at a large cost to society. The author--a professional tutor for underachieving students at PS 8 and Brooklyn High School for Leadership and…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Early Intervention, Poverty, Educational Quality
Comber, Barbara – Australian Educational Researcher, 2016
This article considers what it means to teach and learn in places of poverty through the narratives of front-line workers--particularly students and teachers. What is the work of teaching and learning in places of poverty in current times? How has this changed? What can be learned from both the haunting and hopeful narratives of front-line…
Descriptors: Poverty, Educational Research, Teaching Experience, Student Experience
Martin, Colwyn D.; Ebrahim, Hasina B. – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2016
This article examines two teachers' discourses of literacy as social practice in advantaged and disadvantaged early childhood centres for three- to four-year-olds. The intention is to make sense of the dominant discourse of literacy, its constitutive nature and its effects on children, teaching and learning. Foucault's theory of discourse is used…
Descriptors: Literacy, Disadvantaged Environment, Child Care Centers, Preschool Children
Baran, Mukadder – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2019
The purpose of this research was to identify the barriers that upper-secondary school science and mathematics teachers face during the teaching process in economically disadvantaged regions (Hakkari, Turkey and Swansea, UK). The research design was comparative case research and pursues qualitative methodological approach in collecting and…
Descriptors: Barriers, Urban Areas, Mathematics Teachers, Science Teachers
Garry, Jen; Rush, Chloe; Hillary, Jude; Cullinane, Carl; Montacute, Rebecca – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2018
Free schools are all-ability schools, funded by the government, and can be set up by groups such as charities, universities, teachers or parents. Free schools came into being as part of the Academies Act 2010 and the Education Act 2011 and have the same legal status as academies. The first free schools opened in September 2011 and by the end of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Free Schools, Institutional Characteristics, Elementary Schools
Russell, Lisa – Power and Education, 2016
Poverty is a complex cultural phenomenon that is very much in existence in contemporary post-industrial Britain. A young person's poverty-striken situation, in addition to their marginalised hierarchal position, shapes their repetitive life cycle comprising different but interrelated forms of marginality. The young people in this ethnographic…
Descriptors: Poverty, Social Systems, Unemployment, Disadvantaged
Tomlinson, Carol Ann – Educational Leadership, 2016
In this article, Carol Ann Tomlinson reflects on "the next steps on the march toward equity?" It was not until her first teaching job that she had a real understanding of societal inequities in a very rural, very poor area of a southern state. In this context she began to develop an understanding of how society sends its young to school…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Rural Areas, Racial Relations, African American Students
Ekono, Mercedes; Jiang, Yang; Smith, Sheila – National Center for Children in Poverty, 2016
A U.S. family of three living in deep poverty survives on an annual income below $9,276, or less than $9.00 a day per family member. The struggle to raise children on such a meager income is not a rare circumstance among U.S. families, especially those with young children. Currently, 11 percent of young children (0-9 years) live in households with…
Descriptors: Young Children, Poverty, Family Income, Child Health
Uzun Cicek, Ayla; Sari, Seda Aybuke; Mercan Isik, Cansu – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2020
Introduction: Intellectual disability (ID) is characterized by limitations in cognitive and adaptive functioning. The aim of this study is to examine sociodemographic characteristics, perinatal and childhood risk factors, and prevalence of psychiatric and biomedical comorbidities in children with ID. Methods: 260 patients with ID were included in…
Descriptors: Risk, Incidence, Case Studies, Comorbidity
Calderón López, Margarita – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2017
This study explores the role of literacy in disadvantaged environments and the interplay between self-generated literacy practices and their conceptualization of literacy in 7 to 10-year-old Chilean pupils from two different schools located in Santiago, Chile. The study was framed within a participatory approach focused on promoting the children's…
Descriptors: Literacy, Disadvantaged Environment, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students