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- Title
Homeless Students and Academic Achievement.
- Authors
Tobin, Kerri J.
- 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.
- Subjects
HOMELESS students; SOCIAL conditions of school children; POVERTY; ACADEMIC achievement; URBAN education
- Publication
Urban Education, 2016, Vol 51, Issue 2, p197
- ISSN
0042-0859
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0042085914543116