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Chan, Ho Wai Queenie; Sun, Chui Fun Rachel – Journal of American College Health, 2021
Academic stress, depression, and anxiety among university students has been a great concern globally. Literature review shows that university students may harbor irrational beliefs that could play a significant role in causing emotional disturbances. Objective: The aims of this study were to examine the relationship of irrational beliefs with…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Anxiety, Depression (Psychology), Emotional Disturbances
Paschall, Katherine; Davis, Elizabeth E.; Tout, Kathryn – Administration for Children & Families, 2021
Families across the United States face a variety of challenges securing early care and education (ECE) for their children. The supply and price of ECE programs in local areas tell part but not all the access story for families. Describing access across multiple dimensions provides decision makers with a deeper understanding of families' ECE needs…
Descriptors: Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Access to Education, Family Characteristics
Tennessee Department of Education, 2023
Tennessee has long recognized the importance of early childhood care and education (ECCE) that children receive prior to school entry. Access to high-quality early teaching and learning contributes to the Tennessee Department of Education's (TDOE) goal that all children become successful readers by third grade, and moreover, better prepares…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Student Needs, Educational Opportunities, Poverty
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Catrin Finkenauer; Maartje Boer; Jenna Spitzer; Dominic Weinberg; Kirsten Visser; Merel Jonker; Gonneke W. J. M. Stevens – npj Science of Learning, 2023
This study examined the relationship between family wealth and school dropout among vocational education students (n = 1,231; mean age=17.81). It investigated whether (1) family affluence and adolescents' own perceptions and experiences of their family wealth (i.e., perceived family wealth, financial scarcity) predict dropout, (2) adolescents'…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Students, Political Attitudes, Citizen Participation
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Deer, LillyBelle K.; Hastings, Paul D.; Hostinar, Camelia E. – Child Development, 2020
This study utilized data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (N = 14,860) to examine whether early-life family income (age 0-5) predicted long-term academic achievement (age 16-18) and to investigate the role of executive function (EF) assessed multiple times across age 7-11 in explaining this association. Task-based EF was a…
Descriptors: Family Income, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables, Young Children
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Elpus, Kenneth; Grisé, Adam – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2019
As fundraising has become a key component of American public school music educators' professional responsibilities, in many places, parent organizations have taken an increasingly outsized role in raising private funds to supplement public school music budgets. The purpose of this study was to understand the finances of public school music…
Descriptors: Music Education, Fund Raising, Private Financial Support, Parent Associations
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Moshoeshoe, Ramaele – Education Economics, 2019
This paper examines the effect of birth order on educational attainment in Lesotho. Using family fixed effects models, I find robust negative birth order effects on educational attainment. These results are in sharp contrast with the evidence from many developing countries, but are consistent with that from developed countries. Further, these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Birth Order, Educational Attainment, Family Size
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Kolbe, Tammy; Baker, Bruce D. – Journal of Higher Education, 2019
Community colleges play an increasingly important role in the higher education landscape. Yet, what is unclear is whether existing models for funding community colleges are up to the task of preserving, or even expanding, access to postsecondary education, particularly among groups historically underrepresented in higher education. Of particular…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Expenditure per Student
National Center for Homeless Education, 2024
Youth and young adults experiencing homelessness face many challenges while pursuing postsecondary credentials. Low education attainment is occurring in higher education institutions across the county, with more than a quarter of first-year college students not returning for their second year in community college. This National Center for Homeless…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Special Needs Students, Best Practices, Student Experience
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Celik, Sibel; Sari, Alper Semih – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2022
The basic aim of this study is to specify mental well-being levels and investigate some various conservatory students. Conservatory students studying at Dicle University and Gaziantep University State Conservatory in the 2020-2021 academic year participated in the research. Purposeful sampling was used in this study, which was carried out with a…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Well Being, College Students, Foreign Countries
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Perkins, Wil – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2022
This study probed the predictive effects of accelerated college credits over and above the predictive effects of FAFSA EFC index number, sex, and first-generation status on baccalaureate outcomes on first-time college students. A hierarchical multiple regression on 2,817 students who graduated from a private university in central Arkansas was…
Descriptors: College Credits, Predictor Variables, High School Students, Academic Achievement
Takashi Yamashita; Wonmai Punksungka; Donnette Narine; Abigail Helsinger; Jenna W. Kramer; Phyllis A. Cummins; Rita Karam – Grantee Submission, 2022
Adult numeracy is one of the essential skill sets to navigate through numeric information-rich labor markets in general, and STEM industries in particular. Yet, relatively little is known about how numeracy skills are used in different settings in the USA. This study examined numeracy skill use patterns of STEM and non-STEM workers at work and…
Descriptors: Numeracy, STEM Education, Science Careers, Work Environment
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Conwell, Jordan A. – Sociology of Education, 2021
In recent decades, the black-white test score disparity has decreased, and the test score disparity between children of high- versus low-income parents has increased. This study focuses on a comparison that has, to date, fallen between the separate literatures on these diverging trends: black and white students whose parents have similarly low,…
Descriptors: Racial Factors, Family Income, Mathematics Achievement, Achievement Gap
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van Poortvliet, Matthew – Oxford Review of Education, 2021
At all ages, a child who can sustain attention, regulate emotions, inhibit impulsive behaviour, and relate appropriately to adults and peers is able to take advantage of learning opportunities in the classroom, and beyond. This study assesses differences in children's socio-emotional development according to family background, and whether early…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Family Characteristics, Disadvantaged Youth
Lloyd, Chrishana M.; Alvira-Hammond, Marta; Carlson, Julianna; Logan, Deja – Child Trends, 2021
This issue brief is the first in a series examining timely topics that are relevant to Black families and children in the United States. The series identifies key information and opportunities for consideration by policymakers, researchers, practitioners, philanthropists, and others interested in supporting the progress of Black families and…
Descriptors: African American Family, African American Children, Blacks, Racial Bias
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