Education
| Publication | Category | Topic |
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| Many Eligible Children Don’t Participate in School Nutrition Programs The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, which authorizes funding for federal nutrition programs (including the National School Lunch Program; the School Breakfast Program; the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children; the Summer Food… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Education, Food Assistance, Safety Net |
| A Community Schools Approach to Accessing Services and Improving Neighborhood Outcomes in Manchester, New Hampshire In the several years since the Great Recession, New Hampshire, like the nation, has witnessed and experienced growing economic disadvantage. The state’s poverty level stands at 8.4 percent, and child poverty increased from about 8 percent in 2000 to… |
New Hampshire, Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Community, Education, New Hampshire |
| Gaps in Youth Opportunity by State Public discourse on economics in the United States, and around the world, often focuses on rising income and wealth inequality. The “Occupy” movement drew great attention to the rising fortunes of the top one percent while middle- and lower-income Americans lost… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Education, Employment, Income, Poverty, Young Adults |
| Limited Access to AP Courses for Students in Smaller and More Isolated Rural School Districts This brief assesses trends in access to, enrollment in, and success in Advanced Placement (AP) coursework in relation to school district poverty, racial composition, and urbanicity. It uses data merged from the 2011–2012 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), the 2012… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Education, Rural, Young Adults |
| Restraint and Seclusion of Students With a Disability Continue to Be Common in Some School Districts Patterns Remain Relatively Consistent Despite Recent Policy Changes In 2013, Carsey released a brief that analyzed rates of restraint and seclusion using a large, nationally representative data set of U.S. school districts. This brief, which analyzes a more comprehensive data set and the most current Civil Rights Data Collection,… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Education |
| Key Findings and Recommendations from the Coös Youth Study In this brief, authors Michael Staunton and Eleanor Jaffee review the key findings and recommendations from research conducted in the first half of the Coös Youth Study, which began in 2008 and is planned to continue through 2018.
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New Hampshire | Community, Coös Youth Study, Education, Health, New Hampshire, Young Adults |
| Intimate Partner Violence Among LGBTQ+ College Students Drawing from a survey of 391 college students in same-sex relationships, this brief documents the rates and patterns of intimate partner violence, and responses to it among LGBTQ+ youth.
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Vulnerable Families Research Program | Education, Gender, Health, Young Adults |
| Variation Found in Rates of Restraint and Seclusion Among Students With a Disability The restraint and seclusion of individuals—practices usually associated with highly restrictive environments—are extreme responses to student behavior used in some public schools. In this brief, authors Douglas Gagnon, Marybeth Mattingly, and Vincent Connelly report… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Education, Health |
| Coös County Youth and Out-of-School Activities - Patterns of Involvement and Barriers to Participation This fact sheet draws from surveys administered to a cohort of 416 participants in 7th grade in 2008, again when they were in 8th grade in 2009, and most recently as 10th graders in 2011 to look at patterns of participation in structured activities over time and… |
New Hampshire | Coös Youth Study, Education, Health, New Hampshire, Young Adults |
| Beginning Teachers Are More Common in Rural, High-Poverty, and Racially Diverse Schools This brief considers whether the concentration of beginning teachers in a district is associated with the district's poverty rate, racial composition, or urbanicity.
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Vulnerable Families Research Program | Education, Poverty, Rural |
