Homeless Students and Academic Achievement: Evidence from a Large Urban Area

Autor/in	Tobin, Kerri J.
Titel	Homeless Students and Academic Achievement: Evidence from a Large Urban Area
Quelle	In: Urban Education, 51 (2016) 2, S.197-220 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0042-0859
DOI	10.1177/0042085914543116
Schlagwörter	Homeless People; Academic Achievement; Socioeconomic Status; Elementary School Students; Educational Policy; Urban Areas; Attendance; Low Achievement; Institutional Characteristics; Prediction; Educational Practices; Housing; Race; Ethnicity; Special Education; Language Arts; Scores; School Districts; Multiple Regression Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Homeless person; Homeless persons; Obdachloser; Schulleistung; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Urban area; Stadtregion; Anwesenheit; Unterdurchschnittliche Leistung; Vorhersage; Bildungspraxis; Unterkunft; Rasse; Abstammung; Ethnizität; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Sprachkultur; School district; Schulbezirk
Abstract	Child homelessness has recently reached levels unprecedented in the United States since the Great Depression. Contemporary research has attempted to isolate the effects of homelessness on education, with mixed results. This study reports results from a study in one large urban area and finds that there is no meaningful difference in achievement between homeless and housed low-socioeconomic status (SES) elementary school students. Furthermore, we find that attendance is a mediator of lowered achievement and that commonly suspected school-level characteristics do not predict homeless student success. Implications for policy, practice, and research are discussed. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01