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Homeless: How Residential Instability Complicates Students’ Lives., Ronald Hallett
Homeless: How Residential Instability Complicates Students’ Lives., Ronald Hallett
Ronald Hallett
Ronald Hallett examines the challenges of highly mobile students and what educators can do to retain and support them.
Transitions To Adulthood For Homeless Adolescents, William Tierney, Jarrett Gupton, Ronald Hallett
Transitions To Adulthood For Homeless Adolescents, William Tierney, Jarrett Gupton, Ronald Hallett
Ronald Hallett
This qualitative case study of 123 homeless youth and over 40 stakeholders in Los Angeles provides a glimpse into the many educational barriers that exist for homeless and highly mobile youth. The authors provide a typology of the different ways youth experience homelessness and how these forms of instability frame their educational participation. In addition to highlighting the many challenges, the authors provide recommendations to improve both policy and practice.
Transition To Adulthood For Homeless Adolescents, William G. Tierney, Jarrett T. Gupton, Ronald E. Hallett
Transition To Adulthood For Homeless Adolescents, William G. Tierney, Jarrett T. Gupton, Ronald E. Hallett
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Education plays a critical role in how adolescents mature into adults. A vulnerable, and often forgotten, sub-population of the poor is homeless youth, for whom lack of a stable or adequate residence creates a unique set of educational barriers. The Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis (CHEPA) spent 18 months documenting the experiences of homeless adolescents in Los Angeles, deriving data from 123 interviews with homeless adolescents between the ages of 14 and 19, and an additional 45 interviews with shelter staff, social workers, parents, teachers, and school district administrators. Follow-up interviews were conducted with 30 of the youth to …
Education And Homeless Youth: Policy Implementations, Ronald Hallett
Education And Homeless Youth: Policy Implementations, Ronald Hallett
Benerd College Faculty Articles
Hallett provides a review of research project related to McKinney-Vento.
Education And Homeless Youth: Policy Implementations, Ronald Hallett
Education And Homeless Youth: Policy Implementations, Ronald Hallett
Ronald Hallett
Hallett provides a review of research project related to McKinney-Vento.