Shortchanging the Disadvantaged Student

Strategies for Closing the Gap: Predicting Student Performance in Economically Disadvantaged Schools

In 2001, the No Child Left Behind Act placed even stronger responsibility on states to raise student performance. As a result of these accountability standards, states must now administer standardized tests to " measure adequate yearly progress " of all students. They face costly federal mandates and must submit comprehensive accountability plans. The federal law also focuses on narrowing the a...

Can Community Policing Help The Truly Disadvantaged?

Community policing advocates argue that reforms designed to break down barriers between police and citizens can produce favorable outcomes. The authors test a series of related hypotheses in a multivariate context by using four independent data sources— community surveys, patrol officer interviews, Census Bureau, and police crime records— to estimate hierarchical linear models. The results show...

Race-Specific Policies and the Truly Disadvantaged

Young Disadvantaged Men as Fathers.

This article reviews the existing literature on young disadvantaged fathers' involvement with children. It first outlines the predominant theoretical perspectives regarding father involvement among resident (married and cohabiting) biological fathers, resident social fathers (unrelated romantic partners of children's mothers), and nonresident biological fathers. Second, it presents a brief disc...

Kidney Disease in Disadvantaged Populations

The challenges and dilemmas faced by disadvantaged populations with kidney disease are tremendous. Patients, health care providers, and investigators struggle to manage and understand the high burden of disease, the practical approach to delivery of high cost renal replacement therapy with limited resources, implementation of preventive strategies , and the difficult ethical dilemmas. The purpo...