The Journal of Negro Education back issues from January 2003:
"It's a way of life for us": High mobility and high achievement in department of defense schools
Jan 01, 2003; ... This article focuses on the academic performance of students in a system characterized by high student mobility: the U.S. Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) school system. Some observers contend that the high achievement among highly mobile students in DoDEA schools is a function ...
Student mobility and local school improvement in Chicago
Jan 01, 2003; ... In the typical Chicago elementary school, only 50% of its students remain enrolled in the school over a three-year period. Residential changes account for the majority of these moves, but over two-fifths are school-related. Many students move within a small network of schools connected by ...
A pervasive school culture for the betterment of student outcomes: One school's approach to student mobility
Jan 01, 2003; ... This article illustrates how one southern California school has developed a culture where all students receive the same benefits and opportunities. While there is no formal "program," all students, particularly those who are highly mobile and volatile, benefit from the way the school conducts ...
The implications of welfare reform for housing and school instability
Jan 01, 2003; ... To determine the potential influence of welfare reform on housing instability, which influences school instability, the results of studies on the housing outcomes of welfare recipients are discussed. State studies suggest that welfare reform has increased the rates of family mobility, evictions, ...
Student attendance and mobility in Minneapolis Public Schools
Jan 01, 2003; ... The Minneapolis Public Schools addressed student attendance during 1999-2000 as one strategy to improve student achievement. A particular concern was the school attendance and achievement of highly mobile students. This article describes how the district identified system-wide standards and ...
Mobility and the children of Langley Park's immigrant families
Jan 01, 2003; ... In Langley Park, Maryland, a predominantly immigrant working-class neighborhood, school-children perform well below state norms and have a high dropout rate. Contributing factors are embedded in the schools and school system, the neighborhood, the family, and a generalized process of ...
Children of the road: Migrant students, our nation's most mobile population
Jan 01, 2003; ... Children of migrant farmworkers, often called "children of the road," face many obstacles in their lives, including extreme poverty, geographic and cultural isolation, discrimination based on race, language minority status, and mobility. Congress established the Title I Migrant Education Program ...
Responding to the school mobility of children and youth experiencing homelessness: The McKinney-Vento* act and beyond
Jan 01, 2003; ... Subtitle VII-B of the McKinney-Vento Act, recently reauthorized as part of the No Child Left Behind Act, was designed to limit the negative effects of school mobility on students experiencing homelessness. Students may change schools as they move among temporary housing options, leading to lower ...
Accountability and student mobility under Title I of the No Child Left Behind Act
Jan 01, 2003; ... Mobile students face three related risks in the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act. First, in determining schools' academic progress, some mobile students may not be academically assessed or counted, reducing the likelihood that their academic needs will get attention. Second, some ...
Transporting homeless students to increase stability: A case study of two Texas districts
Jan 01, 2003; ... Passage of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 included major revisions to the federal legislation that addresses the education of children and youth experiencing homelessness, the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Improvements Act (McKinney-Vento). The major changes included ...
The causes and consequences of student mobility
Jan 01, 2003; ... Student mobility-students making nonpromotional school changes-is widespread in many schools and districts throughout the United States. Mobility not only can harm the students who change schools, it can also harm the classrooms and schools they attend. This article examines the incidence, ...
Exploring the relationship between student mobility and dropout among students with emotional and behavioral disorders
Jan 01, 2003; ... Students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) are more likely to drop out of school than their disabled and nondisabled peers. Forty-eight percent of students with EBD drop out of grades 9-12, as opposed to 30% of all students with disabilities and 24% of all high school students ....
Foster care and school mobility
Jan 01, 2003; ... Foster children face numerous obstacles to academic achievement compared to their non-foster peers. In addition to having low educational attainment, they may also suffer from high rates of school mobility and experience long delays when transferring schools. Sources of these transfers and ...
The affordable housing crisis: Residential mobility of poor families and school mobility of poor children
Jan 01, 2003; ... Residential mobility that results in changing schools has serious implications for a student's academic success. The lack of housing that the lowest income households can afford contributes to housing instability resulting in frequent moves and, for some families, periods of homelessness ....
Student mobility: How some children get left behind*
Jan 01, 2003; ... The crucial issue of providing effective schooling for transient students has not been systematically addressed at the school, community, state, or federal levels. Neither have sustained programmatic nor policy solutions been developed to deal with what is one of the most urgent social and ...