Socioeconomic status

Often, this feeling of incompetence can lead students towards delinquent acts, as well as less commitment towards school due to a lack of motivation. In extreme cases, students may even result to dropping out of school. Many minority and low socioeconomic status students face this inadequacy, believing they are naturally unable to succeed in school. This self-image often persists in the minds of students, even when offered the opportunity to move up in the tiers. Yonezawa (2002) studied how…

Department of Education, “family participation in education was twice as predictive of students’ academic success as family socioeconomic status (2002). Many of my students are from low income families so it is of greater importance for these students to have parent and social support. Malecki and Demaray conducted a study and found that students of low socioeconomic status are at a higher risk of failure if there is no parent involvement (2006). It is crucial that I develop a relationship with…

more diverse each and every schoolyear. The demographics of our community show up to our schools, and we must create paths to accomodate their differences into our classrooms. We are currently facing an entourage of hispanic , autistic, and low socioeconomic students entering our school system. It is our job to effectively teach them at the same level that we teach kids that we can closely identify with. Hispanic families are flooding the United States job markets at an incredible rate in an…

The world encompasses many different cultures, which governs way of living. Culture is defined as the characteristics that mutually make up societies or groups of people identified by beliefs, behaviours and customs. Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of social reproduction formed from culture studies created the concept cultural capital. Divided into three types of cultural capital aspects embodied, objectified and institutionalised state all contributing to shaping lifestyles and individuals. Presence,…

Dealing with at-risk youth can be a hard project, especially when you are trying to help them and figure out what it is that makes them at-risk. At-risk is a term frequently used to describe children. The term really has no definitive answer to what at-risk is, other than a child who faces a much higher risk than other children. This could be in the form of abuse, being disabled, or even having a low self-esteem (Moore, 2006). Being at-risk may have some repercussions and may cause the…

his/her family status, there is also minimal parent child interaction and therefore the parent is not engaged in the child’s life and is unaware of any obstacles the child is facing on a day to day basis. Similar to Jansen et al. (2012), Due et al.( 2009) provided a Family affluence scale which also measured the socioeconomic status of families. Questions included if the family owns a car, how many computers the family owns, and how often the family goes on vacation. Results similarly indicated…

classified as obese”(CDC). As these numbers continue to grow, people are beginning to question the cause of this epidemic. There are several factors contributing to Americas weight problem including increased production of processed foods, socioeconomic status, unhealthy diets, and lack of exercise. Although, the current way of food production in America is extremely efficient, several studies have found that processed foods have an ultimately negative…

achieved popularity in the educational sphere because it is seen as a way to increase U.S. innovational output as well as create diversity in the white and Asian male dominant STEM career field by seeking inclusion of females, minorities, and lower socioeconomic youth in STEM education.…

Along with that, I have gained quite a bit of knowledge about how parental involvement can be a huge factor in their child’s education. For some reason, I believed that families with a lower socioeconomic status would have more chances for involvement in education than parents in a high socioeconomic status. I could take on that perspective because I grew up with parents that fall under a high SES, but they were never involved in anyway with my…

1. The first research study that I analyzed is The Effect of a Professional Development Classroom Management Model on At-Risk Elementary Students’ Misbehaviors by Dr. Gary Reglin, Dr. Joretta Akpo-Sanni, and Dr. Nonofo Losike-Sedimo. The copyright to the article is by Project Innovation and it was published in Fall 2012. I found the study through a search on ERIC (Educational Reform Information Center) by using the search terms ‘Classroom Management’ and ‘Discipline’. The reason that I chose…