Research Interests: Trajectories of self - regulation development and relations to school readiness and achievement in low -
income ethnic minority children.
Not exact matches
While low -
income,
ethnic -
minority families displayed less sensitivity overall to their
children, positive father involvement and close mother - father relationships were especially beneficial in the case of maternal risk.
Do you think that U.S. education policy should work on improving the science - math performance of the
children at the bottom, overwhelmingly from low -
income families and racial and
ethnic minorities, rather than the performance of all
children?
Raising America's average scores on international comparisons is, therefore, not a matter of repairing a broken educational system that performs poorly overall, as many critiques suggest, but rather of improving the performance of the
children at the bottom, overwhelmingly from low -
income families and racial and
ethnic minorities.
She is more determined than ever to work on behalf of the
children that she feels are affected most by the failures of the current system: those educated in inner - city, lower -
income,
ethnic -
minority majority public school districts.
Effects of Full - Day Kindergarten on the Long - Term Health Prospects of
Children in Low -
Income and Racial /
Ethnic -
Minority Populations.
The best way to do this, in my view, is to support the educational opportunities of Hispanic, African - American, Asian, Muslim, of racial and
ethnic minority children and youth and low
income students and to systematically look for ways to help these our
children and youth develop agency, and understanding of the political process and of the many opportunities to make democracy work in the acts of ordinary citizens, to discover and master the codes of political participation and power, to develop political efficacy.
No
Child Left Behind, on the books since 2002, was supposed to close achievement gaps for disadvantaged students (racial and
ethnic minorities, low -
income students, youngsters with special needs and English learners) and to eliminate what President George W. Bush decried as «the soft bigotry of low expectations.»
Recent analyses suggest that households with a «mixed»
child are more likely to have higher
incomes, a higher level of education and are generally less likely to live in lone parent households compared to households with non-mixed
children from
ethnic minorities.
There is growing evidence of deficiencies in the quality of health care for
children, including low rates of preventive services, 1 persistent disparities in health status, 2 and lack of a usual source of care among
ethnic and racial
minorities and
children in low -
income families.3
For example, compared to older mothers, teen mothers display lower levels of verbal stimulation and involvement, higher levels of intrusiveness, and maternal speech that is less varied and complex.47, 48 Mothers with fewer years of education read to their
children less frequently25, 49 and demonstrate less sophisticated language and literacy skills themselves, 50 which affects the quantity and quality of their verbal interactions with their
children.2 Parental education, in turn, relates to household
income: poverty and persistent poverty are strongly associated with less stimulating home environments, 51 and parents living in poverty have
children who are at risk for cognitive, academic, and social - emotional difficulties.52, 53 Finally, Hispanic and African American mothers are, on average, less likely to read to their
children than White, non-Hispanic mothers; 54 and Spanish - speaking Hispanic families have fewer
children's books available in the home as compared to their non-Hispanic counterparts.25 These racial and
ethnic findings are likely explained by differences in family resources across groups, as
minority status is often associated with various social - demographic risks.
Lower levels of family routine may confer risk for ODD symptoms among low -
income, urban,
ethnic -
minority children experiencing higher levels of HI.
To address this gap, we tested whether
child - reported family routine moderated the relation between
child hyperactivity / impulsivity (HI) and ODD symptoms among a sample of low -
income, urban,
ethnic -
minority children (N = 87, 51 % male).