Students Facing Poverty: The New Majority

Autor/in	Suitts, Steve
Titel	Students Facing Poverty: The New Majority
Quelle	In: Educational Leadership, 74 (2016) 3, S.36-40 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1784
Schlagwörter	Low Income Groups; At Risk Students; Public Schools; Elementary Secondary Education; State Aid; Expenditure per Student; Equal Education; Student Needs; Poverty + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Armut
Abstract	Low-income students are now a majority in U.S. public schools. Steve Suitts, formerly of the Southern Education Foundation, reviews statistics showing that the percentage of students in K-12 schools coming from low-income families has increased to 52 percent. Meanwhile, state funding for K-12 schools has increased much more modestly, so that growth in the number of low-income students has outstripped growth in per-pupil spending. Suitts points out that research has shown what schools should provide to give low-income kids a chance of success--things like tutoring, adequate counseling, extended school time, and more preventive health care. States and districts have enacted a few of these reforms piecemeal, but never as a package, probably because funding has been an obstacle. Yet the nation could find the funds, Suitts asserts, if there were a public will to do what it takes to give poor students--now a majority of students in the U.S.--the supports they need to do well in school. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01