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Anastasio, R. Julius – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Moving can be a stressful and disruptive event for children, but the associations among the type of move, accompanying neighborhood characteristics, and children's development are less well understood, particularly for elementary school children. In the current dissertation, I developed and tested components of a conceptual model that uses…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Student Mobility, Place of Residence, Housing
Gutierrez, Emily; Blagg, Kristin; Chingos, Matthew M. – Urban Institute, 2022
Most researchers and policymakers rely on the share of students eligible for free and reduced-price meals when describing student socioeconomic background in schools. But shares of students receiving free and reduced-price meals, and other measures related to the distribution of school meals, vary by state and across time because of changes in…
Descriptors: Poverty, Low Income Students, Urban Schools, Measurement Techniques
Maryland State Department of Education, 2022
This fact sheet answers several questions about enrollment in Maryland public schools, including: (1) how to enroll a child in school for the first time; (2) what to do if a child is transferring from one school to another; and (3) why proof of custody/guardianship, proof of residency, proof of age, proof of income, and immunization records are…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Public Schools, Transfer Students, Student Records
Luis Carlos Carvajal Osorio – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In this dissertation, I study some of the factors that determine schooling decisions in middle-income economies in Latin America. In the first chapter, I examine the impacts of a large-scale program in Colombia that installs water treatment facilities in rural schools. To identify causal effects on student and community outcomes, I leverage…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Decision Making, Economics
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Fernanda Maria de Almeida; Kristinn Hermannsson; Antônio Sérgio de Araújo Fernandes – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2024
This article aims to contribute to the debate on the role of the Quota Law regarding the potential social mobility of students with high socioeconomic adversity, using administrative data from a federal university in Brazil. We used Confirmatory Factor Analysis technique to construct an adversity index, composed of variables that may negatively…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Social Mobility, College Students
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Ritchelle W. Origenes; Blanca A. Alejandro – Journal of Biological Education Indonesia (Jurnal Pendidikan Biologi Indonesia), 2024
During the COVID-19 pandemic, students faced increased risk of contracting the virus due to the relaxation of health protocols by the Philippine government and the authorization of face-to-face instruction in schools by the Department of Education. There is little data on basic education school students' awareness of COVID-19 in the Philippines,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Junior High School Students
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Gniewosz, Gabriela – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic substantially affected the lives of mothers. This study seeks to investigate the stress that mothers experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic and their self-efficacy as parents in managing the impact of the disease. The study gathered longitudinal data from 603 German mothers (M[subscript age] = 40.5 years) with children…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Mothers, Stress Variables
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Arslan, Adem; Özyürek, Arzu – Educational Research and Reviews, 2023
This study aims to investigate the relationship between the positive childhood experiences of young people and family values. In the quantitative research design, descriptive and relational screening method was used in the study, and the study group consisted of 753 university students aged 18-25. Data were collected using the Positive Childhood…
Descriptors: Early Experience, Family Influence, College Students, Family Characteristics
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Zhao, Yanan; Luo, Yanan; Zhang, Rong; Zheng, Xiaoying – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
Autism spectrum disorder has gained international attention due to its prevalence and the extent to which it can affect families. As a disorder without quantifiable treatment effects, it is easily overlooked in the battle for resources. Estimating family economic burdens and the specific factors that may be associated with them could help in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Costs, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Economic Factors
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Selvitopu, Abdullah; Kaya, Metin – Journal of Education, 2023
The two main purposes of the current meta-analysis were (1) to determine the relation between socioeconomic status (SES) of students and academic performance (AP) and (2) and evaluate the effect of several potential moderating factors in this relation. Data covered the publications between 2010 and 2019, and the dataset consisted of 48 independent…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Socioeconomic Status, Academic Achievement, Correlation
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Carvalhaes, Flavio; Senkevics, Adriano S.; Ribeiro, Carlos A. Costa – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
This paper investigates the intersection of income and race in structuring access to higher education among students that participate in a national high-stakes exam in Brazil. Our objectives are (1) to estimate the probability of students coming from different income strata, racial groups, and performance levels to access higher education and (2)…
Descriptors: Family Income, Racial Differences, High School Graduates, College Attendance
Barnett, W. Steven; Jung, Kwanghee – National Institute for Early Education Research, 2023
In 2020 preschool participation rates substantially declined. A recent NIEER survey found that the Fall 2022 preschool participation rates had nearly returned to pre-pandemic 2019 levels. The NIEER survey asked parents of young children who were still not in preschool in the Fall of 2022 to report why they did not enroll their children. The top…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Student Participation, Attendance Patterns
Richard D. Kahlenberg – Century Foundation, 2023
This report examines the ways in which zoning laws affect housing and schooling opportunities in the Buffalo region. It begins with an examination of two communities--the Martin Luther King Park neighborhood in Buffalo and the suburban Village of East Aurora. In addition to the two Buffalo communities where discriminatory zoning has caused extreme…
Descriptors: Zoning, Barriers, Equal Education, Housing
Kate E. Walton; Jeff Allen; Maxwell J. Box; Jeremy Burrus; Dana Murano – ACT, Inc., 2023
Social and emotional (SE) skills are known to be linked with many important life outcomes, including academic performance, performance on standardized college entrance exams, and college enrollment. In this technical brief, the authors evaluated whether the five SE skills measured with the Mosaic™ by ACT® predict postsecondary enrollment and…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Prediction, Postsecondary Education
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Belpatra Nath Yogi; Bhimsen Devkota – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
Motor skills during early childhood play a significant role in child development. We used the bioecological model to determine the bioecological factors associated with preschool children's gross motor skills (GMS). The GMS of randomly sampled 280 children were tested using a standardized checklist. The background variables theoretically framed in…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Preschool Children, Motor Development, Parent Child Relationship
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