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Direct linkMatthias Fischer; Kerri Tobin – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
Because housing instability can make it difficult for students to attend school, students experiencing homelessness (SEH) may become chronically absent. For this reason, SEH have lower graduation rates than their housed counterpants. Germany's second-chance schools give students an opportunity to catch up on their learning so they can take final…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Foreign Countries, Attendance, Barriers
Bishop, Joseph; Gonzalez, Lorena Camargo; Rivera, Edwin – Phi Delta Kappan, 2021
Homelessness among U.S. K-12 students has been on the rise for decades, and it shows no signs of slowing down, especially as the COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to significant unemployment. Joseph Bishop describes findings from a study of student homelessness in California. Interviews with those experiencing homelessness and those who serve…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Elementary Secondary Education, At Risk Students, Barriers
Murphy, Joseph F.; Tobin, Kerri J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
Homelessness is a complex and layered phenomenon, but schools can be effective in reducing its educational consequences. Schools currently are not doing enough. The next step is to consider the services that are needed for students as they arrive on the school campus. Taking care of homeless children in school systems involves seven provisos:…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Disadvantaged Youth, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship
Marshall, Joanne M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2012
The Boone Hope Foundation has given away over $130,000 in gift cards, rent checks, and eyeglasses--all targeted to help students with emergency needs related to food, clothing, shelter, and healthcare in its rural Iowa community. This is the story of teachers from a typical Midwestern school--relatively small and certainly not affluent--who have…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Rural Schools, Student Needs, Homeless People
Vissing, Yvonne, M.; And Others – Phi Delta Kappan, 1994
Recounts two homeless teenagers' struggle to stabilize their lives and graduate from high school. To help other heroic, homeless students, high schools should adopt flexible admission criteria, attendance policies, course offerings, and class assignments and provide special education services, transportation vouchers, and emotional support when…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Adolescents, Family Problems, Graduation Requirements
