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Academic Achievement Trajectories of Homeless and Highly Mobile Students: Resilience in the Context of Chronic and Acute Risk
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Cutuli, J. J.; Desjardins, Christopher David; Herbers, Janette E.; Long, Jeffrey D.; Heistad, David; Chan, Chi-Keung; Hinz, Elizabeth; Masten, Ann S. – Child Development, 2013
Analyses examined academic achievement data across third through eighth grades ("N" = 26,474), comparing students identified as homeless or highly mobile (HHM) with other students in the federal free meal program (FM), reduced price meals (RM), or neither (General). Achievement was lower as a function of rising risk status (General…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Homeless People, Student Mobility, Resilience (Psychology)
Comparison of Chronic and Acute Models of Risk on Mathematics Achievement and Growth
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Desjardins, Christopher David; Cutuli, J.J.; Herbers, Janette E.; Chan, Chi-Keung; Hinz, Elizabeth; Heistad, David; Long, Jeffrey D.; Masten, Ann S. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
The rate of poverty for children in the United States is far higher than for other advantaged nations (Payne & Biddle, 1999) with an estimated 13.3 million children, 18% of all children, living below the poverty threshold (U. S. Bureau of the Census, 2008). An estimated 5.8 million children live in extreme poverty where their families earn less…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Poverty, Homeless People, Mathematics Achievement