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Download full textMohan, Erica; Shields, Carolyn M. – Critical Questions in Education, 2014
In a given year, approximately 1.6 million children in the United States experience homelessness, and research shows that their living conditions generally place these children at risk for educational underperformance and failure at school (Hall, 2007; Love, 2009). Although lack of education or low levels of education on the part of a head of…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Student Experience, Disadvantaged, Educational Experience
Grineski, Steve – Critical Questions in Education, 2014
It is widely reported that children who are homeless are victimized by overwhelming challenges like poverty and ill-advised policy decisions, such as underfunding the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act. This act is the only federal legislation devoted to this marginalized group. Children who are homeless, however, should not be characterized…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Children, Poverty, Interviews
Cunningham, Keith Alan – Critical Questions in Education, 2014
This critical policy ethnography analyzes the McKinney-Vento Act and how the policy is put into practice at a school district within Central Texas. Data comes from conversations with educators occupying key roles within the McKinney-Vento operational bureaucracy at the school district and the researcher's experience as an educator and…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Federal Legislation, School Districts, Educational Policy
Nix-Hodes, Patricia; Heybach, Laurene M. – Critical Questions in Education, 2014
While the intent of the federal and state homeless education laws is clear, securing the educational rights of students without housing has been a long legal and political struggle in Chicago and Illinois. Education for students experiencing homelessness is a continuation of the civil rights struggle for equality in education and educational…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Equal Education, Civil Rights, Educational Legislation
Jacobs, Mary M. – Critical Questions in Education, 2014
In this article, I draw on data from my qualitative dissertation study of the literacy practices of five families who resided in a homeless shelter to complicate the relationship between literacy, education, and inequality. Homelessness is examined through the lens of sponsorship to understand the differential access the families have to powerful…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Emergency Shelters, Family Literacy, Parent Attitudes
Johnson, Kristen A.; Grazulis, Jessica; White, Joshua K. – Critical Questions in Education, 2014
One of the purposes of higher education is to promote citizenship and social justice. This article explores the way Aurora University is helping students to discover what matters through the impact of "Sleep Out on the Quad," which is an event that uses multiple pedagogies to impact student learning of homelessness. It serves as a call…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Citizenship Education, Homeless People, Social Problems
