- Fall/Winter (2014–2015) 2015
- Focus-31-2
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This issue of Focus examines education and poverty: early childhood interventions for low-income children; educational opportunity for homeless students; the relative effectiveness of neighborhood and school interventions at reducing inequality; how school quality affects the success of a conditional cash transfer program; and increasing college completion for low-income students.
- Early childhood interventions for low-income children, by Greg J. Duncan and Katherine Magnuson
- Educational opportunity for homeless students, by Peter Miller, Alexandra E. Pavlakis, Lea Samartino, and Alexis K. Bourgeois
- Reducing inequality: Neighborhood and school interventions , by Lawrence F. Katz
- How school quality affects the success of a conditional cash transfer program, by Sharon Wolf, J. Lawrence Aber, and Pamela A. Morris
- A path to college completion for disadvantagedstudents, by Emma Caspar
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Links to additional readings and videos related to the articles in the issue. This resource may be particularly useful in the classroom.
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