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Download full textUS Senate, 2015
This hearing serves as a first in a set of hearings focusing on early learning. In his opening statement, Senator Tom Harkin, Chairman of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, strongly encouraged members of this committee on both sides of the aisle to hold roundtables and have discussions on early learning in their local…
Descriptors: Hearings, Laws, Legislation, Federal Government
Direct linkBarber, Katie W. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
There is no question that economic deprivation has an adverse impact on student achievement. In the United States, the gaps in achievement among poor and advantaged students are substantial. Through multiple studies, the United States Department of Education (2006) indicated results that "clearly demonstrated that poverty adversely affected…
Descriptors: Poverty, At Risk Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Achievement Gap
Challenging Instruction for "All Students": Policy, Practitioners, and Practice. JCPR Working Paper.
Spillane, James P. – 2002
This study investigated the local implementation of South Carolina state policy initiatives that proposed more rigorous academic content for all students, analyzing the implementation process in schools with predominantly poor and minority students. The study, conducted between 1992-96, examined data from four urban and rural elementary schools.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrator Attitudes, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth
Peer reviewedRobertson, Donna Friedman – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 1998
Describes a qualitative research project examining homelessness's effects on children's schooling, highlighting a South Carolina intervention program's success. Research disclosed an informal homelessness "caste system," the political unpopularity of providing homeless services, homeless kids' high rates of academic failure and problem…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Access to Education, Administrator Attitudes, Behavior Problems
Asayesh, Gelareh; And Others – 1992
Prepared by the national professional association of education reporters, this publication contains five articles that emphasize stories about mothers' crucial roles in their children's literacy. Reporters in five different parts of the United States sought out and interviewed young mothers with school-age children. "An Overview: Mothers'…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Blacks, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education
Blanton, Roy E.; Harmon, Hobart L. – Rural Educator, 2005
Schools in 47 high-poverty school districts located mostly along the Atlantic Coast of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia may have a head start on new requirements of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001, thanks to a $6 million grant from the National Science Foundation. Begun in April 2000, the five-year Coastal Rural Systemic…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Poverty, Federal Legislation, Disadvantaged Youth
