Homeless Children and Youth at Risk: The Educational Impact of Displacement

Murphy, Joseph

doi:10.1080/10824669.2011.554143

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“…Retention rates among homeless students can be as high as 25% [23]; and high proportions of children who are homeless may be failing in reading and math (50%) and may also have behavioural issues (40%) [14]. The state of mobility that these youths have due to their ever-changing status and cyclical living behaviour is "one of the greatest barriers to educational achievement" [23].…”

Section: Homelessness and Schoolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Exploring Learning Ecologies among People Experiencing Homelessness

Strohmayer

Comber

Balaam

2015

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Non-homeless youths outperform their homeless peers in school even if they live in extreme poverty. This disadvantage can have long-term consequences for engagement with and navigation of wider society. In this paper we examine how differences in achievement could be tackled outside of school through the re-envisioning of ecologies of digital education. Through interviews, design workshops, and a street visit with a total of 20 homeless young adults during a three-week engagement with a centre for people of low social stability in Bucharest, Romania, we examine the perceptions of education among street involved youth or adults. We identify the core values, aspirations, opportunities and barriers for education among these people, including survival, friendship, learning networks, and curiosity. These findings resulted in five implications for design: learning 'happens', learning 'works', designing for distanced learning, designing for the social politics of learning, and designing artefacts of everyday learning. These show the importance and necessity of educational reform in the field of HCI.

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Section: Homelessness and Schoolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Non-homeless youths outperform their homeless peers in school even if they live in extreme poverty [23]. Retention rates among homeless students can be as high as 25% [23]; and high proportions of children who are homeless may be failing in reading and math (50%) and may also have behavioural issues (40%) [14].…”

Section: Homelessness and Schoolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring Learning Ecologies among People Experiencing Homelessness

Strohmayer

Comber

Balaam

2015

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Students experiencing housing instability are often subjected to unplanned mobility (e.g., eviction, moving abruptly due to shelter changes, conflicts with family/friends with whom they are doubled up) that negatively impacts their educational engagement, participation, and outcomes (Hallett and Skrla 2016). Lack of a stable home impacts the physical, psychological, and educational needs of these students (Murphy 2011;Rafferty 1999). Furthermore, unstably housed students score lower than their stably housed peers on achievement tests and are less likely to be promoted (ICPH 2017).…”

Section: Educational Impactsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using Youth Risk Behavior Survey data to analyze housing instability among Delaware public school students

Aviles

McCallops

Hussain

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Journal of Children and Poverty

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This study provides information about the prevalence, living conditions, and demographic characteristics of housing instability among students in the state of Delaware. Data were obtained from the Delaware Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) for the 2011-2017 academic years and included 23,819 youth respondents in grades 6-12. Descriptive and logistic regression analyses were conducted to characterize student demographics. Results show that 3.6% (about one out of 30) of Delaware students, grades 6-12, experience housing instability, and this rate was consistent across urban and rural areas. Findings also reveal that males and students of color were more likely to experience housing instability. Results obtained are utilized to understand the prevalence of housing instability and to inform schools, communities, and policy makers of ways to support and strengthen services and programming for students' academic needs and well-being.

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“…Homeless children are at greater risk for health concerns including under- and overnutrition, 4–6 chronic illness, 7,8 internalizing and externalizing behavior problems, 9–11 and dental decay. 6 In addition, homeless children perform more poorly academically 12,13 and often struggle with social functioning 14 compared to housed peers. Homeless parents also face their own challenges, with elevated rates of health issues consistent with that of their children as well as increased sexual risk behaviors, 8 smoking rates, and psychopathology.…”

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