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Yan, Lixia; Wang, Siyuan; Yuan, Yang; Zhang, Yu; Zhang, Junhua – SAGE Open, 2022
There are many contradictions in previous studies of the status of depressive symptoms among Chinese migrant children, the number of which in the compulsory education stage is about 13.9 million. This systematic review and meta-analysis were designed to compare depressive symptoms among migrant children and their urban children. Around 2,710…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Migrants, Children
Solomon, Anne Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The Progressive Movement in the United States was a complex, multifaceted, and organic reform movement, comprised of diverse reformers who instituted unique social and educational initiatives to improve society. This historical study focused on the establishment and success of the Children's School Farm of New York, an early twentieth-century…
Descriptors: Progressive Education, Educational History, Urban Youth, Gardening
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Gullo, Dominic F. – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
Concentrated pockets of under-resourced neighbourhoods and schools exist in urban areas in which there are overwhelming numbers of children labelled 'at-risk.' Structural equation modelling was used to predict the associations between family social capital in kindergarten and third-grade learning and development outcomes for low-socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
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Wang, Jun; Chen, Chen; Gong, Xinmei – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021
The positive development of migrant children in China is hampered due to their unequal accessibility to quality urban education resources. This research aimed at exploring the developmental trajectories of migrant and urban children's literacy and mathematics performance, as well as the impact of family socioeconomic status (SES) and parenting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Characteristics, Socioeconomic Status, Parenting Styles
Marlon W. Gray – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Mental health care in the United States is both important and expensive. In many instances, those with the least amount of access to quality mental health care services also face other social inequities. The government has addressed this issue in a myriad of ways, some effective, others not. The outpatient development model creates a barrier to…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Minority Groups, Youth, Experience
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Shankar-Brown, Rajni – National Youth-At-Risk Journal, 2017
This qualitative case study examines and illuminates the social-emotional and educational experiences of children ages 5 to 18 residing in an urban, family emergency housing shelter located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Data were collected and triangulated through participant observations, semi-structured interviews, and…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Poverty, Social Development, Emotional Development
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Qian, Liu – Chinese Education & Society, 2017
Based on surveys and field work conducted in District C of Beijing City, the author identifies migrant children's social assimilation obstacles according to distinct school types: each school type offers different quality educational resources and is composed of migrant students at different socioeconomic levels. The survey data show that migrant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Integration, Children, Migrant Workers
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Cappella, Elise; Hwang, Sophia H. J.; Kieffer, Michael J.; Yates, Miranda – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2018
Given the potential of afterschool programs to support youth in urban, low-income communities, we examined the role of afterschool classroom ecology in the academic outcomes of Latino and African American youth with and without social-behavioral risk. Using multireporter methods and multilevel analysis, we find that positive classroom ecology…
Descriptors: Urban Programs, After School Programs, Hispanic American Students, African American Students
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Kisirkoi, Florence Kanorio; Mse, Godfrey Shed – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
Human beings and specifically in African societies value children for they determine the communities' future and place them at the centre of their family life. Over the decades, governments have recognized the importance of children in their development efforts and have devoted considerable resources to child development especially in education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, School Holding Power, Children