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Download full textMcClellan, Rhonda L.; Argue, Sarah E. – European Journal of Educational Management, 2022
Poverty is a clustered and corrosive disadvantage that affects students throughout their lives. The education system has been positioned as an opportunity to break the cycle of poverty. Yet, the education system continues to fail to achieve its potential. We conceptually explore how educational leaders could perceive their responsibility in…
Descriptors: Children, Poverty, Well Being, Responsibility
Barber, William J., II; Barnes, Shailly Gupta; Bivens, Josh; Faries, Krista; Lee, Thea; Theoharis, Liz – American Educator, 2021
When the coronavirus pandemic arrived, the United States was already deeply unequal. Before the pandemic, 140 million Americans were poor or near poor, living just one emergency above the poverty line. Inequality in the United States did not happen suddenly and cannot be explained as the consequence of individual failures; rather, decades of…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Public Policy, Equal Education, Activism
Vasquez-Martinez, Claudio-Rafael; González-Gonzalez, Felipe; Flores, Francisco; Cardona-T., Jose-Gerardo; González, Irma; Espino, Piero; Olaguez, Eugenia; Rendon, Hector; Chavoya, Jorge; Valdes-Perea, Alba-Liliana; Álvarez, María-Ines; Torres-Mata, Joaquín; Betancourt-Nuñez, Erik-Moises; Rodríguez-Ramírez, Sergio-Esteban; Álvarez-Gómez, Miguel; Cabral-Araiza, Jesús; Anguiano, Carlos – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2018
A reform always implies an adjustment, a transformation, or a change. But one always hopes that a reform is for the better, and that it will benefit those who will be affected by the reform. Educational reforms have been seen in this way, since the world changes and we change with it. In this line of thought, we can dare to think that when an…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Poverty, Quality of Life, Social Differences
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This report examines how the two global mega-trends of population ageing and rising inequalities have been developing and interacting, both within and across generations. Taking a life-course perspective the report shows how inequalities in education, health, employment and earnings compound, resulting in large differences in lifetime earnings…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Trend Analysis, Equal Education, Health
Ponczek, Vladimir; Souza, Andre Portela – Journal of Human Resources, 2012
This paper presents new evidence of the causal effect of family size on child quality in a developing-country context. We estimate the impact of family size on child labor and educational outcomes among Brazilian children and young adults by exploring the exogenous variation of family size driven by the presence of twins in the family. Using the…
Descriptors: Females, Family Size, Males, Human Capital
Santos, Maria Emma – Social Indicators Research, 2013
This paper analyses poverty reduction in Bhutan between two points in time--2003 and 2007--from a multidimensional perspective. The measures estimated include consumption expenditure as well as other indicators which are directly (when possible) or indirectly associated to valuable functionings, namely, health, education, access to electricity,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Social Indicators, Psychological Patterns
Angner, Erik; Miller, Michael J.; Ray, Midge N.; Saag, Kenneth G.; Allison, Jeroan J. – Social Indicators Research, 2010
The relationship between health literacy and happiness was explored using a cross-sectional survey of community-dwelling older primary-care patients. Health literacy status was estimated with the following previously validated question: "How confident are you in filling out medical forms by yourself?" Happiness was measured using an adapted…
Descriptors: Poverty, Patients, Psychological Patterns, Health Education
Wagle, Udaya R. – Social Indicators Research, 2009
Shifting focus from income to capability signifies an important milestone toward accurately measuring poverty and deprivation. This paper operationalizes capability deprivation in the United States and compares measurement outcomes among various capability approaches and between capability and income spaces. Of the three capability approaches…
Descriptors: Poverty, Income, Profiles, Disadvantaged Environment
Sedere, Upali M. – Online Submission, 2010
Equity is a major concern for all development actors. Although Sri Lanka has successfully addressed equity issues in education sector there are unresolved factors and variables those perpetuate inequity. There are emerging new equity issues those that Sri Lanka needs to address. The changing population dynamics and the huge middle class population…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Performance Factors, Predictor Variables
Shaw, Thomas; Carrozza, Mark – Evaluation Review, 2008
We conduct an evaluation of MedShare, a program designed to enhance access to prescription drugs for indigent patients in the Greater Cincinnati area. The program expands access to drugs by providing subsidies to reduce the costs paid by patients for their prescriptions. The assumption is that by expanding access to prescription drugs, participant…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Drug Therapy, Quality of Life, Patients
Green, Rebecca J.; Williams, Patricia L.; Johnson, C. Shanthi; Blum, Ilya – Canadian Journal on Aging, 2008
This study examined whether Canada's public pensions (Old Age Security and Canada Pension Plan) provided adequate income for seniors living in Nova Scotia in 2005 to afford a basic nutritious diet. Monthly incomes were compared to essential monthly expenses for four household scenarios: (a) married couple, 80 years and 78 years, in urban Nova…
Descriptors: Retirement, Poverty, Quality of Life, Older Adults
Latif, Amna – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2009
Since Pakistan's inception in 1947, the government has made continuous efforts to provide free, universal, basic education to its citizens. This is evidenced by educational plans, policies, and five-year education sector reforms, including partnerships with international agencies and developed countries. However, these efforts have not yielded any…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Females, Quality of Life, Illiteracy
National Council on Disability, 2009
In recent years, the National Council on Disability (NCD) Progress Report has been a retrospective review and analysis of Federal programs for people with disabilities. For this Progress Report, NCD members have chosen to depart from a retrospective approach, and, instead, will focus on the current status of the quality of life of people with…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Public Policy, Federal Government, Federal Programs
Murphey, David; Redd, Zakia; Moodie, Shannon; Knewstub, Dylan; Humble, Jill; Bell, Kelly; Cooper, Mae – Child Trends, 2012
The National Capital Region (NCR) is home to more than one-and-a-half million children and youth (ages birth through 24 years). Although the NCR is known as a place with a highly transient population, if history is any guide, many of these young people will remain in this region and fundamentally shape the quality of life--not only for themselves,…
Descriptors: Well Being, Cultural Differences, Family Life, Young Adults
Garza, Cecilia; Landeck, Michael – School Social Work Journal, 2007
This study examines the role of school social workers as potential agents of change in the educational system, with a special focus on their major demographic characteristics in Texas and along the Mexico border region. The border region of the state has chronic poverty and limited educational attainment levels and demonstrates a need for…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Federal Legislation, Educational Attainment, Quality of Life
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