Sentences with phrase «income urban parents»

Many conditions can prevent low - income urban parents from becoming involved in their children's schools.

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«Young men who grow up in homes without fathers are twice as likely to end up in jail as those who come from traditional two - parent families... those boys whose fathers were absent from the household had double the odds of being incarcerated — even when other factors such as race, income, parent education and urban residence were held constant.»

Indeed, by removing some of the most talented students and involved parents from P.S. 121, the busing program contributed to the school's severe decline in quality in the ensuing years — a pattern repeated in many urban schools with low - income, minority student populations.

So, the question is, should voters statewide limit the educational choices of parents in low - income, urban communities?

The study also found that black, Hispanic, and low - income students, students whose parents attained low levels of education, and urban residents were most likely to make the change.

And even as we watch in wonder as high - performing urban charter schools send increasing numbers of low - income minority students to college, it is hard not to be discouraged by the many more who remain trapped in schools that simply do not work, left to wander through the same opportunity void as their parents before them.

Her current, collaborative projects include studies of Head Start children's literacy learning and teacher communities (the EPIC study), family engagement, and parent involvement; young fathers in urban settings; health and educational disparities within low - income communities; children of incarcerated parents; and intergenerational learning within African - American and Latino families.

Midtown Educational Foundation At MEF, we seek to impact the future of Chicago education by offering high - quality enrichment opportunities for low - income, at - risk, urban students and their parents through our unique, holistic approach to after - school and summertime programs at the Midtown Center for boys and Metro Achievement Center for girls.

Through its mission to «eliminate the achievement gap in our lifetime,» Rocketship targets minority, low - income, urban students in tandem with a particular interest in engaging these students» parents as well (Rocketship Schools 2017a).

These included characteristics on multiple levels of the child's biopsychosocial context: (1) child factors: race / ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic, and Asian / Pacific Islander / Alaska Native), age, gender, 9 - month Bayley Mental and Motor scores, birth weight (normal, moderately low, or very low), parent - rated child health (fair / poor vs good / very good / excellent), and hours per week in child care; (2) parent factors: maternal age, paternal age, SES (an ECLS - B — derived variable that includes maternal and paternal education, employment status, and income), maternal marital status (married, never married, separated / divorced / widowed), maternal general health (fair / poor versus good / very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) score.

Supporting Parents Who Work and Go to School: A Portrait of Low - Income Students Who Are Employed (PDF - 429 KB) Spaulding, Derrick - Mills, & Callan (2016) Urban Institute Describes the characteristics of the 1 million low - income parents who attend school and alsParents Who Work and Go to School: A Portrait of Low - Income Students Who Are Employed (PDF - 429 KB) Spaulding, Derrick - Mills, & Callan (2016) Urban Institute Describes the characteristics of the 1 million low - income parents who attend school and alsoIncome Students Who Are Employed (PDF - 429 KB) Spaulding, Derrick - Mills, & Callan (2016) Urban Institute Describes the characteristics of the 1 million low - income parents who attend school and alsoincome parents who attend school and alsparents who attend school and also work.

The aim of this study was to determine whether an intervention from the Triple P Positive Parenting Program system was effective in reducing parental reports of child behavioral difficulties in urban low - income settings in Panama City.

This study also shows that poor children with fewer siblings, whose parents are more educated, with higher household income, and living in urban areas are more likely to complete secondary education and escape the poverty cycle.

Responsive and consistent parenting practices are essential to child social, emotional, and mental well - being, yet little is known about how parenting behaviors change over time among low income, urban families who may experience environmental instability and other stressors that make these practices more variable.

This investigation was undertaken to examine resiliency factors related to positive parenting among low - income, urban, adolescent African American mothers living in three - generational households.