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Peer reviewedFuller, Mary Lou; And Others – PTA Today, 1995
Examines positive and negative aspects of American public education and looks at sources of confusion. Positive points include higher graduation rates, higher test scores, math and science accomplishment, and college quality. Negative points include poverty's effect on academic achievement and lack of sensitivity to student diversity. (SM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Differences, Disadvantaged Environment, Educational Quality
Clinchy, Evans – Equity and Choice, 1991
Low-income parents and children unaccustomed to a school environment are made to feel welcome in the Buffalo Public Schools' Parent Center. Parents are guided-through classes, discussions, and take-home computers-to be their children's teachers and to learn the school system well enough to negotiate it to their children's advantage. (CJS)
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Environment, Elementary Education, Family School Relationship
Direct linkBrowne-Ferrigno, Tricia; Knoeppel, Robert C. – Educational Considerations, 2005
This article shares findings from an exploratory case study about an advanced leadership development program for administrator-certified practitioners in a Central Appalachian school district. The goal of the Principals Excellence Program, one of 24 projects supported by federal funds through the No Child Left Behind School Leadership Development…
Descriptors: Principals, Access to Education, Equal Education, Rural Schools
Brown, Eleanor A.; Dillenburger, Karola – Child Care in Practice, 2004
Sure Start is a Government project that aims to prevent social exclusion by targeting children between 0 and 4 years of age living in areas of social and economic deprivation. This study examined whether a Tier 2 Behaviour Support Service within a local Sure Start project was able to bring about improvements in children's behaviour and the levels…
Descriptors: Intervention, Social Isolation, Psychotherapy, Behavior Problems
Margolin, Sylvia – Children & Schools, 2006
Social support and positive activity involvement are considered protective factors that can help offset the risks for youths living in impoverished areas. This study investigated whether insufficient social support and activity involvement are related to internalizing difficulties, such as depression, anxiety, loneliness, and low self-esteem.…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Self Esteem, Grade 6, Disadvantaged Environment
Wight, Richard G.; Botticello, Amanda L.; Aneshensel, Carol S. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2006
This study examined whether the impact of contextual-level socioeconomic disadvantage on adolescent mental health is contingent upon individual-level perceptions of social support. Data are from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), a panel survey of a nationally representative United States sample (analytic N =…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Adolescents, Mental Health, Longitudinal Studies
Download full textAnstrom, Kris – Directions in Language and Education, 1995
This report summarizes the results and impact of Title I and Chapter I reforms. In 1992-93, elementary and secondary students (n=6,403,054) participated in Chapter I in the United States; 17 percent of this population was limited English proficient (LEP). Although the program has helped many, educators and researchers have questioned the…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Ethnic Groups
Shapiro, Michael – 1993
The purpose of "Teach for America," a program modeled after the Peace Corps, was to recruit a cadre of bright college graduates to become uncertified teachers for two years in some of America's toughest schools. This book tracks the successes and failures of the program in its first year and presents the stories of seven idealistic corps…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, College Graduates, Disadvantaged Environment, Disadvantaged Youth
Ferreira, M. C. Rossetti; And Others – 1983
A study was conducted to critically assess the developmental conditions of 187 children (ages 1 month to 6 years) in eight creches (day nurseries) located in and around Ribeirao Preto, Brazil. Data were collected through informal interviews of day care staff and from 20 hours of direct observations of day care units. Findings indicated inadequate…
Descriptors: Action Research, Child Caregivers, Child Development, Cognitive Measurement
COLEMAN, JAMES S. – 1967
THIS STUDY POSES THE QUESTION OF HOW TO MEASURE THE DEGREE OF INEQUALITY OF EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR SUBGROUPS IN SOCIETY. IT EXAMINES AND REJECTS THE DOMINANT IDEA THAT EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY IS PROVIDED BY A COMMUNITY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES WITH FREE AND OPEN ACCESS FOR ALL, SUBSTITUTING THE IDEA THAT IT IS THE INTENSITY…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Environment, Early Experience, Educational Background
Urban Systems Research and Engineering, Inc., Cambridge, MA. – 1972
As the final part of a three-volume study, this review focuses on housing as an instrument of environmental change with particular emphasis on socioeconomic rather than physical dimensions. Three literature orientations relating to the effectiveness of intervention in the lives of the poor are used for review. They are (1) literature that is…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Disadvantaged Environment, Environmental Influences, Literature Reviews
Soldahl, Thomas A. – 1971
This pilot project was designed to assist high school counselors working with lower socioeconomic Spanish-speaking students to develop more effective vocational counseling programs based on identification of the environmental constructs that influence vocational decisions of Mexican-American youths. Data were collected from interviews with…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Counseling Effectiveness, Decision Making
Bullen, Gertrude F. – 1970
A determination as to whether more positive attitudes toward reading could be developed in elementary school children who, because of economic and cultural factors, had limited experience with books was sought in this study. Children from nonreading backgrounds were selected to take part in a books exposure program which supplemented the school's…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Basic Reading, Disadvantaged Environment
Wolfram, Walt – 1969
This paper examines and evaluates 11 ERIC documents dealing with the manner and extent to which nonstandard dialects differ from standard English. The relative importance of each document to the issue is implicit in the comments concerning that article. The author presents and explains the deficit and difference models of explicating language…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cultural Differences, Dialect Studies
Williams, Trevor – 1973
The concern of this investigation lies with the development and estimation of models explaining children's intellectual variability. Specifically, attention is directed to: (a) the role of parental status attainments and family environments in the transmission of intellectual advantage-disadvantage across generations; (b) the possibility that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Environment, Educational Diagnosis, Environmental Influences
