Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
Focus on Poverty, IRP’s flagship online publication, includes brief essays summarizing current poverty and policy research for non-researchers. The collection is prepared for educators, policymakers, policy analysts, and state and federal officials. Each issue is accompanied by Focus on Poverty Classroom Supplement, a college classroom resource, which includes additional information and web links on the topics covered in Focus on Poverty.
Resources
Poverty and K–12 schooling
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2017
K–12 programs to reduce the intergenerational transmission of poverty
- George Farkas
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2017
Interactive effects of Head Start and K–12 spending
- Rucker C. Johnson
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2017
Does full-day kindergarten reduce achievement gaps?
- Chloe Gibbs
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2017
Administrative complexity as a barrier to school choice
- Jennifer Jennings
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2017
Poverty, neighborhood, and school setting
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2017
Neighborhood and the intergenerational transmission of poverty
- Lincoln Quillian
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2017
School context, segregation, and inequality
- David Deming
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2017
Does schooling increase or decrease social inequality?
- Stephen Raudenbush
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2017
Poverty and childhood health
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2017