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Direct linkFredricks, Jennifer A.; Parr, Alyssa K.; Amemiya, Jamie L.; Wang, Ming-Te; Brauer, Scott – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2019
This study uses a mixed-method sequential exploratory design to examine influences on urban adolescents' engagement and disengagement in school. First, we interviewed 22 middle and high school students who varied in their level of engagement and disengagement. Support from adults and peers, opportunities to make choices, and external incentives…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Youth, Learner Engagement, Middle School Students
Download full textChildren's Aid Society, 2012
Only 8 percent of children born into poverty graduate from college by the age of 25. Consider what that means for the estimated 500,000 New York City kids living in poverty. It is a fact: The better educated a person is, the better her chances of upward mobility. So when fewer than one in 10 children born into poverty reach their academic…
Descriptors: Poverty, Disadvantaged Youth, Urban Youth, Children
