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Rosado, Jacqueline – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Schools have made efforts to improve outcomes for poor, Black, and Latino students, but disparities persist. Education policies in the United States are not addressing the structural inequities in schools and any external influences that contribute to the low achievement of Black, and Latino students living in poverty. The research in this study…
Descriptors: School Health Services, Clinics, Public Schools, Access to Health Care
Nauer, Kim – Phi Delta Kappan, 2016
While the principal of a New York elementary school (P.S. 48) took on chronic absenteeism from 2011 to 2013, a research team at the Center for New York City Affairs followed her efforts. The school drove down chronic absenteeism almost 10 percentage points. School staff routinely touched base with students, outside "success mentors"…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Attendance, Truancy, Prevention
Tapper, Donna; Zhu, Jing; Scuello, Michael – Online Submission, 2015
(Purpose) This study contributes to the knowledge base about strategies for helping disconnected youth re-engage with schooling. The study presents findings of a rigorous impact evaluation of the Good Shepherd Services (GSS) Transfer School Model that is grounded in developmental theory positing that social and emotional factors are essential to…
Descriptors: High School Students, Social Influences, Emotional Response, Student School Relationship