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Direct linkHostinar, Camelia E.; Johnson, Anna E.; Gunnar, Megan R. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
The goal of the present study was to investigate the role of early social deprivation in shaping the effectiveness of parent support to alleviate hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA)-axis-stress responses of children (ages 8.9-11, M = 9.83 years, SD = 0.55). The sample was equally divided between children who had been adopted internationally from…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Environment, Early Experience, Children, Anxiety
Rothstein, Richard – Educational Leadership, 2015
When the unarmed black teenager Michael Brown was killed by a white Ferguson police officer in August, researcher Richard Rothstein put his other projects aside to investigate a question that many otherwise well-informed people were asking--Why did this St. Louis suburb so closely resemble the stereotype of an urban ghetto, with pervasive poverty…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Disadvantaged Environment, Investigations, Government Role
Suor, Jennifer H.; Sturge-Apple, Melissa L.; Davies, Patrick T.; Cicchetti, Dante – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2017
Harsh environments are known to predict deficits in children's cognitive abilities. Life history theory approaches challenge this interpretation, proposing stressed children's cognition becomes specialized to solve problems in fitness-enhancing ways. The goal of this study was to examine associations between early environmental harshness and…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Environment, Path Analysis, Problem Solving, Personality Traits
Download full textYildirim, Günseli; Özyilmaz Akamca, Güzin – South African Journal of Education, 2017
Learning ought to be supported by both in class activities and outdoor activities contributing to structuring knowledge. Outdoor activities allow children to actively participate and to learn by doing. Learning requires a lot of work and activities. These activities, which provide primary experiences, help children to change theoretical knowledge…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Learning Activities, Child Development, Preschool Children
Leatherwood, Darnell – Grantee Submission, 2017
In general, African American males lag behind their White counterparts with regards to high school graduation, college completion and beyond. African American males residing in low resourced communities are especially vulnerable for such disadvantage. Existing literature suggests that parental factors and interactions can help to promote youth…
Descriptors: Parent Influence, Learner Engagement, African American Students, Males
Boston, Jonathan – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2014
A combination of policy changes and wider socio-economic trends led to a dramatic increase in child poverty in New Zealand during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Higher rates of child poverty have now become embedded in the system and show little sign of resolving themselves. For a country which once took pride in being comparatively egalitarian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poverty, Children, Public Policy
Green, Francis; Allen, Rebecca; Jenkins, Andrew – British Educational Research Journal, 2015
Supporters and critics of free schools in England have had differing expectations about whether free schools would emerge in socially disadvantaged areas, and whether they would become socially selective. We investigate the outcomes, using information from the first three years since the introduction of the first new schools in 2011, drawn from…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Disadvantaged Environment, Free Schools, School Location
Altus, Jillian – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2015
Mentoring programs answer the call for social justice for many students who are in success-inhibiting environments. This study employed a case study design to investigate the perceived benefits from a group mentoring program. Data was collected from pre- and post-assessments focus groups, and artifacts. Four participant benefits were revealed:…
Descriptors: Group Counseling, Mentors, Social Justice, Disadvantaged Environment
Cathorall, Michelle L.; Xin, Huaibo; Peachey, Andrew; Bibeau, Daniel L.; Schulz, Mark; Aronson, Robert – American Journal of Health Education, 2015
Purpose: To examine the extent to which neighborhood disadvantage accounts for variation in blood pressure. Methods: Demographic, biometric, and self-reported data from 19,261 health screenings were used. Addresses of participants were geocoded and located within census block groups (n = 14,510, 75.3%). Three hierarchical linear models were…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Hypertension, Demography, Stress Variables
Ormston, R.; van der Pol, M.; Ludbrook, A.; McConville, S.; Amos, A. – Health Education Research, 2015
The "quit4u" stop smoking service (SSS) was developed by National Health Service (NHS) Tayside for smokers in deprived areas of Dundee (UK). quit4u combined behavioural support and pharmacotherapy with financial incentives for each week that participants remained quit. A quasi-experimental study was undertaken with smokers using quit4u…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Health Promotion, Smoking, Foreign Countries
Slade, Mary L.; Burnham, Tammy J.; Catalana, Sarah Marie; Waters, Tammy – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
Reflection is a high impact practice that develops teacher candidates' learning. Critical reflection requires teacher candidates to continually examine their own thoughts, perspectives, biases, and actions. Reflective practice facilitates the development of new knowledge, skills, and dispositions in teacher candidates by fostering critical…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Preservice Teacher Education, Teaching Methods, Decision Making
Kooistra, Elizabeth T.; Buchmeier, Amanda L.; Klatt, Kevin P. – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2012
This study examined the effect of motivating operations (MO) on the emergence of a mand following tact training. Two children with autism were taught to tact a high-preferred (HP) edible identified through a preference assessment. The children were then tested to see if a mand for the HP edible emerged under deprivation (24+ h) and pre-session…
Descriptors: Autism, Disadvantaged Environment, Children, Training
Lee, Wing On; Manzon, Maria – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2014
'Equity and Quality' is an emerging terminology that focuses on the quality of education rather than on 'excellence.' The global policy discourse is turning towards levelling up educational quality "for all." The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) 2012 report entitled "Equity and Quality in Education:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Equal Education, Achievement Gap
Wills, W. J.; Danesi, G.; Kapetanaki, A. B. – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2016
This paper highlights factors that influence young people aged 13-15 years when purchasing food or drink within or beyond the school catering service. The paper draws from a qualitative study of secondary schools in Scotland, which varied in terms of relative socio-economic deprivation and density of food and drink businesses within a 10-min walk.…
Descriptors: Food, Purchasing, Educational Environment, Dining Facilities
Alsford, Elizabeth; Ralephata, Andrew; Bolderson, Sarah; Curtin, Martina; Parish, Esther; Klaber, Victoria; Griffin, Sue; Nash, Lisa; Cullen, Rachel; Musoke, Brenda; Bhalla, Sangheeta; Walker, Lindsay; Duffer, Luisa; O'Sullivan, Sylvia; Knowland, Victoria; Cozens, Suzanne; McLaren, Lindsey; Camilleri, Bernard; Halil, Suzan; Furze, Rachael; Leung, Wai; O'Gorman, Ciara; Carver, Verity; Young, Dorothy; Pring, Tim – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2017
Substantial evidence exists that social circumstances can affect children's language development. As a result many children in socially deprived areas start school with delayed language, which may persist and adversely affect their attainment. We assessed the language of children in seven reception classes in a London (UK) borough and followed the…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, English, Native Language, English (Second Language)
