Investigated the long-term effects of social disadvantage on academic achievement and subsequent attainments in adulthood. Found that the influence of risk factors for socioeconomic disadvantage depended on developmental stage, the experience of long-term or continuous disadvantage, and sociohistorical context. Greatest risk was associated with…

Analysis of Tennessee Job Training Partnership Act data shows that creaming (nonrandom selection of participants, especially nonselection of disadvantaged persons) takes place but not as greatly as critics suggest. Selection of economically disadvantaged persons would lower the placement rate only 8%; targeting high school dropouts would reduce…

Uses data from National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 to examine relationship between student poverty, school poverty, and student achievement. Students in high-poverty public schools, whatever their socioeconomic status, show considerably greater need for special education support than do students in schools with lower percentages of poor…

Drawing on Durkheim's theory of social integration, an analysis of states' spending for public welfare and their divorce rates for 1960, 1970, 1980, and 1985 showed that the welfare state is not a destabilizing influence on family life as critics have charged. Past divorce rates were shown to have the most significant influence on current divorce…

Includes a summary of research and federal legislative actions concerning working poor families. The nature and extent of the situation of the working poor, the apparent causes, and the probable effects on their families are presented. Using a family ecological systems model, some implications for program and policy development are discussed.…

Interviews with 23 disadvantaged elementary students who achieved school success indicates the following: they have the will to achieve and significant connections with caring adults, especially parents; success appeared fragile and needed care and attention; and they felt that low achievers lacked willpower or parental support. (SK)

Presents the author's observations in Honduras, their need for better educational facilities, and the involvement of the Council of Educational Facility Planners, International's efforts in building a new school in one rural village. Each phase from planning to dedication is discussed. Concluding comments address the future of continued facility…

Explores what "The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration" study by the National Research Council actually says about the effects of immigration, considering the negative wage effects of immigration on the poor and the fact that immigration is not the benefit to the economy it once was thought to be. (SLD)

Describes how 12 socioeconomically excluded young adults restored a New Zealand social activist's home using a process related to service learning but enhanced with critical analysis of society. Compares the process to service learning in terms of organizational setting, social class, governance, level of abstraction, conceptual and reflective…

Research on dimensional comparison processes has shown that comparing one's own verbal achievements with poorer results in math leads to a higher self-concept of verbal ability. It has been argued that when observers make inferences about a student's academic self-concept, they do not usually have access to dimensional information. In the present…

Relations of duration and developmental timing of poverty to children's development from birth to age 9 were examined by comparing children from families who were never poor, poor only during the child's infancy (03 years of age), poor only after infancy (49 years of age), and chronically poor. Chronically poor families provided lower quality…

Women for Women's Human Rights (WWHR) -- New Ways has been carrying out a "Human Rights Education Program for Women" throughout Turkey for over a decade, in cooperation with community centers. The training has a holistic, comprehensive nature, linking several areas of human rights through a critical gender perspective lens. One of the…

In this article, the author argues that as a school district, it is the educators duty to do whatever it takes to help their students succeed. Every project an educator undertakes is designed to meet their needs. He also states that a program's success depends on the support and input of administrators, the board of education, teachers and the…

Within-child associations between family income and child externalizing and internalizing problems were examined using longitudinal data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (2004a, 2004b; N = 1,132). Variations in income effects were estimated as a function of whether families were poor, whether mothers were partnered,…

Scholars disagree about the relative importance of racism and economic inequality, but there's a consensus that both are significant and worthy of study. And much work is devoted to the question of when race matters and when it does not. Michaels recognizes that most poor kids, given their lack of resources, are not adequately prepared to succeed…