Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
Focus on Poverty, IRP’s flagship online publication, includes brief essays summarizing current poverty and policy research for non-researchers. The collection is prepared for educators, policymakers, policy analysts, and state and federal officials. Each issue is accompanied by Focus on Poverty Classroom Supplement, a college classroom resource, which includes additional information and web links on the topics covered in Focus on Poverty.
Resources
Does schooling increase or decrease social inequality?
- Stephen Raudenbush
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2017
Poverty and childhood health
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2017
How childhood health affects poverty in adulthood
- Anna Aizer
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2017
Effects of poverty and health on children’s cognitive development
- Margot Jackson
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2017
Medicaid and intergenerational economic mobility
- Rourke O'Brien
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2017
Inequality before birth: Effects of in utero pollution exposure on children’s development
- Claudia Persico
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2017
Poverty and early care and education
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2017
What is the role of early childhood policies in fighting intergenerational transmission of poverty?
- Jane Waldfogel
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2017
What is “high-quality” early care and education?
- Terri J. Sabol
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2017
Can successful preschool programs work outside public schools?
- Christina Weiland
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2017