The Disrupting Poverty Video Series authors William H. Parrett and Kathleen Budge provide solutions for helping
children from
impoverished backgrounds, in elementary and secondary schools, preform well in and
outside of the classroom.
For
children living in poverty, although parenting has been shown to be a consistent predictor of later
child functioning, other factors in the
child's social environment have been found to contribute independent variance to
children's adjustment, effects that are not accounted for by parenting.15 Such factors include parental age, well - being, history of antisocial behaviour, social support within and
outside the family, and beginning around age three to four in Canada's most
impoverished communities, neighbourhood quality.16