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Domina, Thurston; Pharris-Ciurej, Nikolas; Penner, Andrew M.; Penner, Emily K.; Brummet, Quentin; Porter, Sonya R.; Sanabria, Tanya – Educational Researcher, 2018
Students in the United States whose household income is less than 130% of the poverty line qualify for free lunch, and students whose household income is between 130% and 185% of the poverty line qualify for reduced-price lunch. Education researchers and policymakers often use free and reduced-price lunch (FRPL) status to measure socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Educationally Disadvantaged, Low Income Students, Economically Disadvantaged
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Schofield, Thomas J.; Toro, Rosa I.; Parke, Ross D.; Cookston, Jeffrey T.; Fabricius, William V.; Coltrane, Scott – Developmental Psychology, 2017
The primary goal of the current study was to test whether parent and adolescent preference for a common language moderates the association between parenting and rank-order change over time in offspring substance use. A sample of Mexican-origin 7th-grade adolescents (M[subscript age] = 12.5 years, N = 194, 52% female) was measured longitudinally on…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Grade 7, Longitudinal Studies, Smoking
Ryken, Klazina – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to determine whether age differences affect students' academic achievement, and whether age differences affect students in low-income areas differently than those in mixed or higher-income areas. Student achievement data for grades 3, 7, and 11 in language arts and math were obtained from a variety of schools located…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Academic Achievement, Low Income Groups, Family Income