C-STEP Poverty and Society

This collection of articles focuses on research on societal barriers to success for all students. It looks at home, school and community issues. The question of the relationship between social capital and academic achievement in various types of schools and communities is evaluated. Categories of analysis include: (a) the psychosocial environment of childhood poverty, (b) the physical environment of childhood poverty, and (c) environmental risks (i.e. poor quality of school buildings) and developmental outcomes. Another topic raised includes stereotypes of low SES persons and the impact on the children.

What factors within the home, school and community affect academic achievement among US students? Does social capital in schools and communities help to stimulate academic achievement?

The purpose of this study was to determine if at-risk, rural parents who completed the Bavolek parent education program would significantly improve their parenting attitudes

What are the underlying explanations for poverty's impacts on children and their families?

Classism and Class Consciousness

Community Programs & School Achievement for TANF Teenagers

Effects of Neighborhoods on Child Development

Beliefs in Society about Class

Collaboration between Schools and their Communities

Federally Funded At-Risk Youth Programs

Culture of Poverty

Relationship of Social Capital to Student Academic Achievement

Definitions, Implications and Repercussions of Poverty