“I Like to Try My Hardest to Keep My Small Family Together”: Housing as a Key Resource for Academic Success of Pregnant and Parenting College-Aged Students

Pregnant and/or parenting students (PPS) face unique challenges to attending college. The prevalence of housing insecurity may be higher among college PPS. Adding to the limited research in this area, our study explores how housing could be a barrier to attending and maintaining academic success in college for PPS. We partnered with a Midwestern community college (CC) to conduct the study, which consisted of (1) an environmental scan of in-state collegiate housing programs available to PPS, (2) an online survey among PPS attending the partner CC, and (3) key informant interviews with providers at agencies serving PPS and high school PPS planning to attend college. Eight of the 18 institutions we identified from our environmental scan offered family housing. Populations most often addressed were married students (56%), families (39%), and single parents (28%). Out of 22 responses from our online survey, about a third of PPS disagreed or strongly disagreed that they felt satisfied with housing support provided by the partnering CC and that housing options offered were family friendly. PPS perceived affordability, proximity to campus and to their children’s school, on-site day care, and amenities as important aspects of housing. Key informant participants ( n = 9 interviews) described social support, PPS-specific housing, and access to services as important to college attendance. Community college efforts to meet the needs of PPS must consider the unique barriers PPS face to finding affordable and stable housing. Collaborating with local agencies that offer services for PPS is one approach to ensuring their academic success.

TIPE-TIPE POLA ASUH DALAM PENDIDIKAN KELUARGA

This study aims to analyze the type of parenting in the family education of SD 1 Gulang students, Mejobo District, Kudus Regency.This research is a qualitative descriptive study conducted in Gulang Village, Mejobo District, Kudus Regency. The research subjects were grade 4 students of SD 1 Gulang. The data collection techniques used include direct observation, interviews, research documentation, and note taking. Interviews were conducted with parents of students who implemented parenting, students, and teachers who were the main informants. In analyzing the data, the Milles Huberman model was used, namely the analysis was carried out including data collection, data reduction, data presentation and conclusion drawing.The results showed that SD 1 Gulang students received family education from parents who applied various types of parenting styles. The following shows several types of parenting that are found (1) democratic patterns, democratic parenting is a form of parenting that is cooperative for children, but there are certain limitations, this pattern is able to provide maximum education in the family so that children have good character and social attitudes. (2) neglect, this form of parenting has a tendency for parents not to be involved at all in the child's life, (3) authoritarian, the family provides strict supervision to the child so that the parents are quite dominant in the child's life and (4) permissive, the parents In providing assistance, only providing needs without providing good family education to children. Of the four types of parenting found, it is known that democratic patterns are parenting styles that have a positive role for children. The three other parenting styles do not have a positive role. As a result, students become passive and cannot socialize well, so that family education is important for a child's life, especially SD 1 Gulang.

Challenging Catholic School Resistance to GSAs with a Revised Conception of Scandal and a Critique of Perceived Threat

Educational leaders in Ontario’s publicly-funded Catholic schools typically resist establishing Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) on grounds that they contradict Catholic moral teaching and so cause scandal in the school. While the protection of GSAs in these schools is derived from recent provincial legislation, the government intervention has the potential to exacerbate religious-secular tensions in the school and society. This paper assumes that, in the Catholic Church’s current political climate, the only justifications for GSAs that will gain genuine traction and possibly deflate this tension descend from within Catholicism’s own tradition of thought and educational practice. The first part of the argument critiques the Catholic hierarchy’s traditional, narrow conception of scandal, and replaces it with a revised, broader conception from within Catholic theology in which the traditional marginalization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) students is the true scandal. These two frameworks are used to analyze inconsistencies between the resistance Catholic schools show toward LGBTQ students wanting to establish GSAs, and the welcoming attitude they display toward pregnant and parenting students. The second part of the argument reveals that the main reason for this difference is that Church officials perceive all LGBTQ organizations as threats to their authority, and this perception is extended to GSAs. This internal critique provides sufficient reason to reverse the current negative Catholic evaluations of GSAs.

NM GRADS: Lessons Learned from Implementing a School-Based Program for Young Parents Across New Mexico

Purpose The New Mexico Graduation Reality and Dual-role Skills (GRADS) program provides services for expectant and parenting students at high schools. The GRADS program has operated since 1989, serving more than 17,000 youth. This study summarizes the GRADS program model and program administrators’ lessons learned from implementing this comprehensive, large-scale program. Description The GRADS program is a multicomponent intervention that can include a classroom intervention, case management, linkages to child care and health care, and support for young fathers. The program aims to support expectant and parenting youth in finishing high school, delaying a repeat pregnancy, promoting health outcomes for their children, and preparing for college and career. This study presents program administrators’ lessons learned to increase understanding of how to implement a statewide program to support expectant and parenting students. Assessment During the 2010–2017 school years, the GRADS program operated in 26–31 sites each year, serving a total of 2691 parenting youth. Program administrators identified lessons learned from implementing the GRADS program during that period of expansion, including allowing variation across sites based on resources and needs, providing centralized implementation support, fostering buy-in from school and district leaders, and collecting consistent data to better understand participant outcomes. Conclusions Although not based on a rigorous impact or implementation study, this article provides lessons learned from a statewide, school-based program that may be a promising way to serve a large number of expectant and parenting youth and help them overcome challenges for completing high school.

Roadmap for Effective School-Based Practices to Support Expectant and Parenting Youth: Lessons from the New Heights Program in Washington, DC

Introduction New Heights is a voluntary school-based program that provides a well-defined system of supports for expectant and parenting students in Washington, DC, and was found to be effective at improving educational outcomes. This study explores the program elements and practices that, when used together, improved academic outcomes for New Heights participants and define a possible roadmap for service providers interested in replicating the program’s success. Methods The study team collected data through site visits, key informant interviews, staff surveys, program observations, case files, and program materials. Results The core design and implementation elements of the New Heights program are (1) placing a trained staff member in the school to provide advocacy, case management, education, and in-kind incentives; (2) bringing community-based service providers into the school; (3) giving trained staff autonomy and a strong grounding in local context; and (4) using a highly collaborative process to hire and support school-based coordinators. Discussion Staff and funders interested in improving outcomes for young parents in school could use the experience of New Heights and the key practices that were critical to its success as a guide: (1) ensure that the program is well defined but can be tailored to the needs of schools and students, (2) engage community partners to bring services to participants, (3) hire and train the right staff who are committed to “do whatever it takes,” (4) actively cultivate a culture of collaboration among program staff, and (5) develop buy-in with school staff and illustrate program value.

PENGARUH POLA ASUH ORANG TUA DAN MOTIVASI TERHADAP PRESTASI BELAJAR SISWA KELAS XI IPS SMA NEGERI 5 PALU

This study aimed to obtain information about (1) Is there any influence parenting parents on student achievement class XI IPS SMAN 5 Palu. (2) Is there any influence of motivation on student achievement class XI IPS SMAN 5 Palu. The method used is descriptive quantitative method. The population of as many as 133 students at SMAN 5 Palu. Total sample as many as 57 people using Proportional sampling techniques. Data collection techniques using a questionnaire Likert scale models, observation, interview and documentation. The data analysis technique that is the first data reduction, data presentation, and draw conclusions. The results showed that: First, there is the influence of Parenting Students (X1) to the learning achievement (Y), parenting applied in SMA Negeri 5 Hammers Class XI IPS namely Democratic Parenting With the percentage rate of 35,73%. In this case of course the child's success in school with high academic achievement can not be separated from parenting parents, the family is the first social group where children can interact. Family influence in the formation and development of personality is very large. Second, From the analysis it is known that the implications of the results of motivation on learning achievement has significant impact on the increase in student motivation. Motivation of students at SMAN 5 Hammers Class XI IPS can already be said to be good with a percentage of 63.44%. Motivation resulting in students not be separated from the teachers themselves. A student learning because it is driven by the power of mental form of desires, concerns, wishes, or ideals, mental strength and can be classified as low and high depending on the efforts of teachers to encourage students and reward so that students feel able to be better.

Making it Work

While doctoral education is growing in the United States, attrition from doctoral programs is high; 40-60% of students who begin doctoral programs do not complete them. Previous research has explored reasons for attrition, but little research has examined persistence, and none have looked at persistence for women during and after pregnancy. This qualitative study explored female doctoral students and graduates’ (n=28) attributions of persistence to completion in their professional healthcare doctoral programs (57% social work) after a pregnancy and/or birth. Two primary themes emerged from this study. First, women attributed their persistence in the program to internal resources such as determination, organization, discipline, and the ability to assess needs and shift resources, schedules, plans, or expectations to meet those needs. Second, some women attributed their ability to persist in their program to good luck, in terms of fertility, pregnancy timing, expectations of the student, and family friendly advisors and programs. Dissertation chairs and advisors can use these findings to more effectively support pregnant and parenting students, including helping them build important skills and reflect on implicit messages about caregiving women who are doctoral students.