Children, Schools, and Poverty = L'enfance, l'ecole, et la pauvrete [microform] / Melanie Hess
- Bib ID:
- 5545640
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Hess, Melanie
- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1989
- 137 p.
- Summary:
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This monograph (in both English and French) examines the impact of poverty on children, with particular reference to the situation of poor children in Canadian elementary and secondary schools. Section 1 briefly introduces the topics of education and poverty. The link between poverty and children's physical and mental health and educational attainment is examined in Section 2. Section 3 discusses problems poor children experience in relation to school. These include hunger; inadequate child care; low self-esteem, motivation, expectations, and achievement; delayed cognitive development; interrupted school attendance; and illiteracy. Section 4 suggests that aspects of the home environment and school experience explain the poor school performance of children from low-income families. Section 5 profiles intervention programs that attempt to redress the problems experienced by poor children in school. These programs include: (1) school-based, and combined school- and home-based, interventions; (2) compensatory education in preschool and elementary grades; and (3) interventions that address literacy, school-to-work transition, and the situation of school dropouts. Several authors' opinions on equality of educational opportunity are presented in Section 6. Conclusions are listed in Section 7. Appended materials include a series of tables presenting data on poverty in Canada; a 44-item reference list; and the Canadian Teachers' Federation's policy on children and poverty. (BC)
- Notes:
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Child Health
- Compensatory Education
- Dropout Programs
- Economically Disadvantaged
- Education Work Relationship
- Elementary School Students
- Elementary Secondary Education
- Equal Education
- Foreign Countries
- Intervention
- Poverty
- Preschool Education
- Program Descriptions
- Secondary School Students
- Student Behavior
- Canada
- Other authors/contributors:
- Canadian Teachers' Federation, Ottawa (Ontario)
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1989
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