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
Early childhood interventions for low-income children
- Greg J. Duncan and Katherine Magnuson
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2014–2015) 2015
Educational opportunity for homeless students
- Peter Miller, Alexandra E. Pavlakis, Lea Samartino, and Alexis K. Bourgeois
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2014–2015) 2015
Reducing inequality: Neighborhood and school interventions
- Lawrence F. Katz
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2014–2015) 2015
How school quality affects the success of a conditional cash transfer program
- Sharon Wolf, J. Lawrence Aber, and Pamela A. Morris
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2014–2015) 2015
A path to college completion for disadvantaged students
- Emma Caspar
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2014–2015) 2015
Focus & Focus+ 31(1), Spring/Summer 2014
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2014
Introduction to the Issue, Focus 31(1)
- Maria Cancian and Mary Pattillo
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2014
Measuring progress in the fight against poverty
- Gregory Acs
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2014
Family instability and the risk of material hardship
- Colleen Heflin
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2014
Work-exempt TANF participants
- Marci Ybarra
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2014