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Pearson, Dale F. – Journal of Multicultural Social Work, 1994
Economic restructuring has exacerbated problems of black men such as poverty, unemployment, lowered life expectancy, and low expectations. Power diverted from productive channels is expressed in gang violence, homicide, and suicide. Recommendations include a national agency to eliminate poverty, involve the black community, and increase funding…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Black Youth, Blacks, Crime
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Mal, Suraj; And Others – Journal of Social Psychology, 1990
Investigated influence of prolonged deprivation on responses to uncontrollable outcome among 104 Indian students in the tenth grade. Finds high-deprived and female students displayed greater helplessness than did their low-deprived and male counterparts. Females and high-deprives students attributed uncontrollable outcome more to internal, stable,…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Theories, Disadvantaged Environment, Females
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Pampel, Fred C.; Rogers, Richard G. – Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2004
Although both low socioeconomic status and cigarette smoking increase health problems and mortality, their possible combined or interactive influence is less clear. On one hand, the health of low status groups may be harmed least by unhealthy behavior such as smoking because, given the substantial health risks produced by limited resources, they…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Smoking, Disadvantaged, Adolescents
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Borders, Tyrone F.; Aday, Lu Ann; Xu, Ke Tom – Journal of Rural Health, 2004
As elderly people become a larger proportion of the rural population, it is important to identify those at risk for poor health. Predictors of health-related quality of life can be useful in designing interventions. Purpose: One objective of the present study was to profile the health-related quality of life of community-dwelling, elderly people…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Health Needs, Mental Health, Physical Health
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Fanning, Bryan; Veale, Angela – Child Care in Practice, 2004
This paper evaluates responses to asylum seeker children in Ireland from a child poverty perspective and from that of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It draws upon research undertaken in early 2001 on behalf of the Irish Refugee Council among asylum seeker families with children in Cork, Limerick and Ennis on their…
Descriptors: Poverty, Income, Childrens Rights, Foreign Countries
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Kazis, Richard; Haynes, Leslie; Liebowitz, Martin – Community College Journal, 2002
This past year, Jobs for the Future studied strategies that community colleges are using to improve the quality and effectiveness of their services to low-income youth and adults. Much of this research was conducted for the MetLife Foundation Community College Excellence Awards Initiative. Across the country, in urban, rural, and suburban…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educationally Disadvantaged, Educational Strategies, Delivery Systems
Sunderman, Gail L.; Orfield, Gary; Kim, James S. – Principal Leadership, 2006
Under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), every school is subject to the controversial mandates for annual test score gains contained in the federal law. The law represents a profound change in the relationship between the federal government and state and local education agencies regarding who controls education and has direct implications for…
Descriptors: Teacher Surveys, Teaching Methods, Federal Legislation, Scores
Conroy, Carol A.; Bruening, Thomas H. – 1994
A study examined factors associated with achievement for African-American eighth graders and whether differences existed relative to poverty status and depth of poverty. Data were extracted from the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988. An independent data set of 3,009 students was created including information for students identifying…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Agricultural Education, Blacks, Disadvantaged Environment
Prager, Karen – Issues in Restructuring Schools, 1993
This "issue report" contains three articles centered around the concept of "social capital", and the role of the schools in community revitalization. "Social captial" consists of organizational networks of communication and shared values that provide collective support for adults and youth in a community. In "Social Capital and the Rebuilding of…
Descriptors: Community Coordination, Community Development, Community Programs, Community Services
Hassell, Sue – 1998
The Child Care and Development Fund Program (CCDF) brings together four Federal Child Care Subsidy programs and allows states to design a comprehensive, integrated service delivery system to meet the needs of low-income working families. This fund assists low-income families and those transitioning off welfare to obtain child care so that they can…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Day Care, Disadvantaged Environment, Disadvantaged Youth
Coughlin, Kenneth M., Ed. – 1980
Agriculture and farming are the economic context for rural education. This is the second of two volumes of papers describing the impact of national agricultural policy on the poor. The nine articles in this volume (shot-titled below) analyze federal policy from the standpoint of the low-income farmer: (1) "Agricultural Price Supports,"…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Trends, Agriculture, Disadvantaged Environment
Ginn, Linda – 1990
This paper describes a summer institute on poverty offered for graduate degree credit through Western Carolina University. The institute targeted western North Carolina educators by inviting 18 regional school districts to sponsor one participant each. Speaker and seminar topics centered on the nature of poverty, its pervasiveness, its…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Environment, Economic Factors, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Stevens, K. J.; Mason, G. A. – 1986
This document describes approaches in conducting naturalistic studies in two different countries with contrasting educational settings. Naturalistic research methodology is described by one of the writers as "an explicit undertaking to lay aside our ideas and concern ourselves with finding the subjects' perspectives in their non-theoretical…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Environment, Educational Anthropology, Elementary Secondary Education, Field Studies
RIESSMAN, FRANK – 1962
THE MAJOR THEMES THAT DESRIBED LOW-INCOME CULTURE WERE--SECURITY OVER STATUS, PRAGMATISM AND ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM, ALIENATION ATTITUDE, COOPERATION, PERSON-CENTERED ATTITUDE, PHYSICALISM, TRADITIONALISM, EXCITEMENT, NONJOINING ATTITUDE, AND STABLE, FEMALE BASED EXTENDED FAMILY. THE LEARNING STYLES OF THE LOW-INCOME GROUP WERE PHYSICAL AND VISUAL,…
Descriptors: Anti Intellectualism, Community Role, Cultural Differences, Disadvantaged
McClure, Wilbert J. – 1978
The purpose of this training workshop is to assist the participants in upgrading their delivery of services to disadvantaged Black clients. The training content is targeted toward counselors and interviewers who directly deliver counseling services. The following topics are covered: job-getting hurdles, role of the counselor; steps in the…
Descriptors: Blacks, Career Guidance, Counselor Training, Counselors
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