Has the Allocation of Certain Teachers Impacted Student Achievement and Upward Economic Mobility? The Case of Forsyth County, NC Elementary Schools

2020 ◽  
pp. 001312452097267
Author(s):  
Zachary D. Blizard
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Economically Disadvantaged ◽  
Local System ◽  
Experienced Teachers ◽  
Economic Mobility ◽  
High Performing Schools ◽  
High Performing ◽  
Disadvantaged Children ◽  
Forsyth County ◽  
Inexperienced Teacher

Forsyth County, North Carolina has one of the lowest rates of upward economic mobility in the entire United States. Researchers find that one of strongest correlates of upward mobility is the quality of schools in the local system. Using 2018 and 2017 NC Public School Report Card (SRC) data for Forsyth County elementary schools, I find that the percentage of experienced teachers at a school is a significant predictor of school performance. At high-performing schools, a much larger share of their faculties consist of highly experienced and educated teachers, compared to low-performing schools that predominately serve economically disadvantaged children. Experienced and high-quality teachers can have significant long-term impacts on elementary school children, especially those who come from underprivileged families. Yet in Forsyth County, schools with greater shares of economically disadvantaged children have lower percentages of teachers with these characteristics. I argue that the Forsyth County school system can assist in reversing low mobility rates by allocating more experienced teachers toward low-performing elementary schools that serve mostly disadvantaged children. This will insure that these schools have higher experienced-to-inexperienced teacher ratios, while also helping to reduce teacher turnover.

Understanding caregiver acceptance of screening for family substance use in pediatric clinics serving economically disadvantaged children

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Pamela A. Matson ◽  
Neha Bakhai ◽  
Barry S. Solomon ◽  
Sarah Flessa ◽  
Julia Ramos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Economically Disadvantaged ◽  
Disadvantaged Children

Access to Ambulatory Care Services for Economically Disadvantaged Children

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 78 (5) ◽  
pp. 813-819
Author(s):  
Paul W. Newacheck ◽  
Neal Halfon
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Economically Disadvantaged ◽  
War On Poverty ◽  
Disadvantaged Children ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Interview Survey ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Ambulatory Services ◽  
Poor Children

Using data from the 1981 Child Health Supplement to the National Health Interview Survey, we examined differences in access to ambulatory services for children of different family incomes. The results indicate that much progress has been made in equalizing access since the War on Poverty was initiated in the mid-1960s. Poor children with superior health status now generally see physicians at the same rates as children in similar health but from higher income families. However, children with substantial health problems from low-income families continue to lag behind their higher income counterparts in similar health. Medicaid was shown to substantially improve access to ambulatory services for economically disadvantaged children in poor health, but less than half of these children are covered by Medicaid. Recent changes in federal and state policies concerning Medicaid are discussed as well as policy options for addressing the needs of children afflicted by both poverty and ill health.

A Quality Education for Whom?

Trespassers? ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Willow S. Lung-Amam
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Academic Culture ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Educational Values ◽  
High Performing Schools ◽  
High Performing ◽  
White Families ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Considerable Resistance ◽  
American Families

This chapter considers how migrants' educational priorities and practices reshaped Silicon Valley neighborhoods and schools. For many Asian American families, high-performing schools have been among the most important factors drawing them to particular communities around the region and to their imagined geography of “good” suburban neighborhoods. The academic culture and practices that Asian Americans introduced in Fremont schools, however, has been met with considerable resistance. A case study of the Mission San Jose neighborhood in Fremont shows that as large numbers of Asian American families moved into the community, primarily for access to its highly ranked schools, many established White families moved out. This pattern of so-called White flight was driven in part by tensions between Asian American and White students and parents over educational values, school culture, and academic competition.

scholarly journals Investigating Teacher Trust towards Principal in High Performing Schools: Comparisons on Teacher Demographic Profiles

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lokman Mohd Tahir ◽  
Mohammed Borhandden Musah ◽  
Shafeeq Hussain Vazhathodi Al-Hudawi ◽  
Sanitah Mohd Yusof ◽  
Mohd Hanafi Mohd Yasin
Keyword(s):  
High Performing Schools ◽  
High Performing ◽  
Demographic Profiles ◽  
Teacher Trust
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