Impact of Poverty on Students

2019

2015

The relationship between family socio-economic status (SES) and the academic performance of children is well established in sociological research. 2 While there is disagreement over how best to measure SES, most studies indicate that children from low SES families do not perform as well as they potentially could at school compared to children from high SES families . Most studies, however, compare students from across all SES backgrounds to reach the conclusion that low SES adversely affects a range of educational outcomes. Another important dimension, however, is the factors that may influence educational outcomes within particular SES bands. This paper presents data on the educational performance of children from financially disadvantaged backgrounds and examines its variation as affected by traditional measures of SES as well as by a range of other family, individual and contextual factors.

The relationship between family socio-economic status (SES) and the academic performance of children is well established in sociological research. 2 While there is disagreement over how best to measure SES, most studies indicate that children from low SES families do not perform as well as they potentially could at school compared to children from high SES families . Most studies, however, compare students from across all SES backgrounds to reach the conclusion that low SES adversely affects a range of educational outcomes. Another important dimension, however, is the factors that may influence educational outcomes within particular SES bands. This paper presents data on the educational performance of children from financially disadvantaged backgrounds and examines its variation as affected by traditional measures of SES as well as by a range of other family, individual and contextual factors.

International Journal of Human Sciences, 2014

This article examines the effects of poverty on education. Many different aspects contribute to a community becoming impoverished such as deindustrialization, high unemployment rates, untreated mental health, and violent crimes. Impoverished communities rural and urban face many issues. These issues include dilapidated housing, lack of access to professional services, and most importantly inferior education. The education is inferior for a number of reasons; students are showing up to school with numerous problems that the teachers are unable to account for through instruction. The school facilities face structural inadequacies which have been proven to have an effect on the quality of instruction. The teachers in the schools, while qualified, are often times not supported by school administration. School administrators are busy with their own issues in determining what areas to allocate their limited budget. Poverty is a vast and complex issue that plagues communities in a seemingly endless cycle. However, working together to find effective ways of solving issues caused by poverty, the future can become a brighter for American youth growing up in poor communities.

Resisting Educational Inequality, 2018

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York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2007

Potter and Alex Tennant. My thanks to them for giving freely of their time and for their constructive criticism. vii viii x Ridge talked to children and young people aged ten to 17 and found that children living in low-income families were more likely to be socially excluded, or to exclude themselves, within school. They expressed concerns about having the right clothes, particularly for non-uniform days. Even with school uniforms, they were concerned about having the 'right' shoes or trainers. Many young people whose families lived in poverty were unable to participate fully in school life, because their parents simply could not afford it. Save the Children and the Children's Rights Alliance in England (Willow, 2001) and Save the Children in Wales (Crowley and Vulliamy, 2002) talked to children and young people about the effects of poverty and found that even children as young as Most advantaged Most disadvantaged Key Stage 1 maths (% level 3) 50 21 Key Stage 1 English (% level 3) 42 12 Key stage 2 maths (% level 5) 46 15 Key Stage 2 English (% level 5) 25 2 Source: Gallagher (2006). Non-FSM Eligible for FSM Key Stage 1 maths (% level 2 and above) 93 80 Key Stage 1 reading (% level 2 and above) 88 70 Key Stage 2 maths (% level 4 and above) 78 55 Key Stage 2 English (% level 4 and above) 81 58 Source: DfES (2005). Socioeconomic context of schools The impact of poverty on children's school experiences cannot be explored, or explained, without taking into account the social, economic and educational context in which the schools are situated. There is considerable evidence of a link between areas with high levels of deprivation and lower levels of educational attainment. Wheeler et al. (2005) studied the relationship between poverty, affl uence and area. They found that those areas with the highest proportions of young people with no qualifi cations tend to have the fewest teachers available. By contrast, those areas with a higher proportion of qualifi ed young people tend to have many adults (around the age of these young people's parents) with degree-level qualifi cations. Lupton (2004, 2005) found a strong relationship between levels of deprivation and the 'quality' of schools in an area. Lupton does, however, counsel caution in relation to the defi nition of 'quality' in schools, since many of the 'quality' measures are measures of outcome and do not take account of progress made by pupils who start with high levels of disadvantage. Nor do such measures always value the work that schools in disadvantaged areas have to do to promote children's 'welfare and spiritual, moral, social and cultural development' (Lupton, 2005, p. 590). The Department of Education is also the lead government department working to draw up a programme of measures across a range of areas to best target the Children and Young People Funding Package of £100 million over 2006/07 and 2007/08. The overall objective of the Children and Young People funding package is: