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Direct linkAlexander Ade, Jennifer – ProQuest LLC, 2023
There's an old adage, "Children are to be seen and not heard." But what do you do in the case when students are not seen? They may not be seen due to absences, or they may not be seen due to flying under the radar, but if we believe that all students can learn, then all students must be seen as well as taught with consideration for all…
Descriptors: Leadership, Academic Achievement, Homeless People, Mentors
Peer reviewedWagaman, M. Alex; Gattis, Maurice N.; Watts, Keith J.; Yabar, Mauricio P.; Blair, Dmitri; Haynes, Tiffany S.; Williams, Elaine G. – Children & Schools, 2022
Housing instability has a detrimental impact on the academic success of children and youth. Despite having federal policy to direct schools on how to identify and support students experiencing homelessness, many schools still face challenges to developing a systemwide approach that involves school staff in varying positions and addresses the…
Descriptors: School Role, Homeless People, School Personnel, Role Perception
Download full textDavid Lapp; Anna Shaw-Amoah – Research for Action, 2024
This PACER brief provides RFA's updated analysis of data on students experiencing homelessness in Pennsylvania, highlighting prevalence, challenges with identification, disparities in educational opportunities, and impact on academic outcomes. Our main findings include that: (1) Roughly 2% of students in Pennsylvania were identified as…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Incidence, Access to Education, Barriers
Melissa D. Olfert; Rebecca L. Hagedorn-Hatfield; Bailey Houghtaling; Monica K. Esquivel; Lanae B. Hood; Lillian MacNell; Jessica Soldavini; Maureen Berner; Mateja R. Savoie Roskos; Melanie D. Hingle; Georgianna R. Mann; Julia F. Waity; Linda L. Knol; Jennifer Walsh; Valerie Kern-Lyons; Christopher Paul; Keith Pearson; Jeannine R. Goetz; Marsha Spence; Elizabeth Anderson-Steeves; Elizabeth D. Wall-Bassett; J. Porter Lillis; E. Brooke Kelly; Adam Hege; Mary Catherine Fontenot; Patricia Coleman – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objectives: To quantify the number and type of students failing to secure basic needs. Participants: Students attending 22 postsecondary schools in the United States in Fall 2019. Methods: The Adult Food Security Module and part of the #RealCollege Survey were used to measure food and housing insecurity, respectively. Logistic and linear…
Descriptors: College Students, Hunger, Housing, Homeless People
Ashton, Valerie A. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Child and youth homelessness is a complex topic area for researchers. There are many facets to the homelessness phenomenon, especially among children and youth. Yet, over the past decade, this topic area has created a research and practicum platform for researchers and actors and followers who are passionate and interested in exploring this social…
Descriptors: Youth, Homeless People, Academic Achievement, Leaders
Brittany R. Profit-Rheinwald – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Food and housing insecurities among college students are a growing concern, undermining their well-being and academic and social success. This single holistic case study explored how food and housing insecurities impact students at a mid-sized public university in New York using Tinto's (1993) student integration framework. This framework suggests…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Food, Hunger, Homeless People
Davis, Ronald Wayne – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Homelessness and housing insecurity (HI) have impacted college students' success for years but were exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially when lots of educational institutions closed their student housing, which resulted in college students having to vacate student housing. This was a major concern especially if their student…
Descriptors: College Students, Homeless People, Housing, At Risk Persons
Sajjad Zohir; Susmita Dutta; Siddiqur Rahman; Wasama Ahmed Khan – UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight, 2024
In the past two decades, Bangladesh experienced a substantial reduction in the prevalence of child labour, associated with improvements in school enrolment and completion. Despite progress, child labour persists in the country, also driven by household earning losses and school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This report addresses a timely…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Labor, Access to Education, COVID-19
Dawnsha R. Mushonga; Mathew C. Uretsky; Bess A. Rose; Angela K. Henneberger – Applied Developmental Science, 2024
Homeless and low-income students share multiple overlapping risk experiences; however, some studies report little to no observed differences in outcomes between these students. From the cumulative risk perspective, homelessness is perched at the extreme edge of economic insecurity, suggesting that homeless students encounter additional hardships…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Low Income Students, At Risk Students, Grade 6
Manfra, Louis – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2019
A systematic review of research exploring the impact of homelessness on young children's school readiness skills in preschool and academic performance in early elementary school is presented. Fourteen studies were identified that included data exploring this association in preschool through Grade 3. Findings indicated that children experiencing…
Descriptors: Homeless People, School Readiness, Academic Achievement, Preschool Education
Quiana S. Ross – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In this study, I examine the perspectives of Pre-K-to-12 public school teachers who work or have worked with students experiencing homelessness, focusing on if and how homelessness influences students' social capital, and in turn, if and how social capital impacts their school readiness and subsequent academic achievement. For this study's…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
De Gregorio, Soledad; Dhaliwal, Tasminda K.; Owens, Ann; Painter, Gary – Educational Researcher, 2022
As student homelessness grows, little is known about how the timing and duration of homeless experiences shape K-12 outcomes. Using Los Angeles Unified School District administrative data, the authors examine whether these temporal dimensions of homelessness predict students' achievement and attendance. The authors find that homeless students…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Students, Homeless People, Time Factors (Learning)
Eric Garber – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In 2013, the California legislature approved the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) as a new way to fund local school districts. The new formula aimed to increase educational equity for low-income, English learners, homeless and foster youth students. The policy established a way to increase funding for school districts with higher percentages…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, School Districts, Elementary Secondary Education, Funding Formulas
National Center for Homeless Education, 2022
Each year, over 1.2 million children and youth identified as homeless in the nation's schools experience educational disruption caused by not having a safe and stable place to live. Many students who have disabilities and are experiencing homelessness face additional challenges for educational progress that require close coordination between…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Low Income Students, Students with Disabilities, Access to Education
Meredith P. Richards; Cheyenne Phillips; Alexandra E. Pavlakis; J. Kessa Roberts – Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Houston Education Research Consortium, 2024
In August 2017, Hurricane Harvey ravaged the Houston area, causing the homelessness of nearly 24,000 students in the Houston Independent School District (Houston ISD) alone. Additionally, nearly all Houston ISD schools sustained damage of some kind, resulting in school closures, campus relocations, and even the delaying of the start of classes for…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, School Districts, Homeless People, Outcomes of Education
