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Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2024
Career-connected learning is an educational strategy that combines high-quality academic instruction, skill-based learning, and real-world experiences to prepare students with the knowledge and skills that they need to pursue their career goals. Career-connected learning is especially important for an often-overlooked group of students including…
Descriptors: Youth, Mobility, Career and Technical Education, Foster Care
Council of Chief State School Officers, 2019
American public education policy and practice has long focused on what can be done to meet the academic needs of all students during the school day. Today, more families and students are facing challenges outside of school that affect student academic performance in classrooms. Challenges such as homelessness, food security, mental health and…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Student Needs, Hunger, Wellness
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2023
Charter school Alternative Education Campuses (AECs) leverage the nimbleness of the charter school model to create unique learning opportunities nationwide for students who experience challenges that make it difficult to excel academically. Some of the challenges include homelessness, pregnancy, parenting while in school, or interaction with the…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Nontraditional Education, At Risk Students, Nontraditional Students
Ferren, Megan – Center for American Progress, 2021
When schools closed their doors in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a scramble to adjust to remote learning. Over the summer and into the fall, the debate over reopening took center stage, as school leaders struggled to answer how and when it would be safe to return to the classroom. The Center for American Progress (CAP)…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Distance Education
Wilson, David McKay – Teaching Tolerance, 2012
In Denver's western suburbs, a social studies teacher thought up a novel approach to teaching her students the unsettling realities of urban homelessness. She assigned them the task of sleeping overnight in the backseat of the family car. But the assignment held a surprise in store for the teacher--one that provides a glimpse into the reality of…
Descriptors: Social Services, Teaching Methods, Poverty, Low Income Groups
National Center for Homeless Education at SERVE, 2013
While both the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and he U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) base their services and eligibility criteria on the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (hereafter referred to as "The McKinney-Vento Act"), each agency uses a different definition of "homeless" due to differences…
Descriptors: Youth, Children, Housing, Homeless People
Hughes, Sarah; Manoatl, Erica; Veraza, Charlie – Colorado Children's Campaign, 2021
The 2021 "KIDS COUNT in Colorado!" report examines how children fared during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis. The data included in the report illustrate the pandemic's far-reaching effects on Colorado kids, from increased housing instability and hunger to difficulty accessing health care, child care, preschool and K-12 education.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Well Being, Child Health
Bender, Kimberly A.; Thompson, Sanna J.; Ferguson, Kristin M.; Yoder, Jamie R.; Kern, Leah – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2014
Previous research documents that street-involved youth experience rates of trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that are significantly higher than their housed counterparts. Trauma and PTSD are of particular concern for homeless youth as they can negatively affect youths' ability to function adaptively and to transition off the streets.…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Youth, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Interviews
Cumming, John M.; Gloeckner, Gene W. – Administrative Issues Journal: Education, Practice, and Research, 2012
After interviewing homeless high school students, the research team in a Colorado school district discovered that many students had not revealed their true living conditions (homelessness) to anyone in the school district. This research team developed an anonymous survey written around the homeless categories identified in the McKinney-Vento…
Descriptors: Homeless People, High School Students, Surveys, School Districts
Perren, James; Grove, Nuray; Thornton, Julie – TESOL Journal, 2013
This article describes three service-learning projects implemented in three different ESL programs in the United States. Each description includes typical course goals, service-learning assignments, reflection activities, student learning outcomes, and pedagogical challenges. The first project was developing digital literacy through…
Descriptors: Service Learning, English (Second Language), Curriculum Implementation, Program Descriptions
Ferguson, Kristin M.; Bender, Kimberly; Thompson, Sanna J. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2014
This study identified predictors of transience among homeless emerging adults in three cities. A total of 601 homeless emerging adults from Los Angeles, Austin, and Denver were recruited using purposive sampling. Ordinary least squares regression results revealed that significant predictors of greater transience include White ethnicity, high…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Homeless People, Young Adults, Urban Areas
Forman, Adam; Giles, David; Kleiman, Neil; Ko, Jae – Center for an Urban Future, 2013
As cities across the country and globe continue to generate new solutions to a wide variety of vexing problems, sharing information about what works and what doesn't has become more important than ever. Yet, outside of a few prominent policies, the vast majority of successful municipal experiments never reach a national audience or, for that…
Descriptors: Innovation, Urban Areas, Mentors, Parents
Burke, Scott; Moore, Tom – Principal Leadership, 2009
When geometry and career and technical education (CTE) are cotaught in the process of building a house, learning is enhanced, test scores improve, and there's a waiting list of students wanting in. Geometry in Construction is a class instructed by the authors--a CTE teacher (Scott Burke) and a mathematics teacher (Tom Moore). While Moore instructs…
Descriptors: Housing Needs, Homeless People, Standardized Tests, Construction Programs
Colorado Children's Campaign, 2015
Children in communities across Colorado--whether large or small, rural or urban, on the Eastern Plains or the Western Slope--face opportunities and obstacles to reaching their full potential. While some challenges are similar, many are very different depending on the community environment and the resources available to support children and…
Descriptors: Children, Well Being, Child Health, Poverty
Pevec, Illene Susan – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The severe youth health crisis involving overweight and obesity requires a complex policy response involving multiple domains: education, agriculture, health services, and community planning. This research examines gardening's affective benefits for adolescents and the potential school and youth gardens have to support healthy communities.…
Descriptors: Health Services, Adolescents, Biology, Sensory Experience
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