Doctoral Dissertation Research: Poverty, Middle School Dropout, and High School Completion

博士论文研究：贫困、初中辍学和高中毕业

• 批准号: 1303548
• 负责人: Lori Peek
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: Colorado State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1303548&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Poverty; Middle

SES-1303548 Lori PeekMeghan MordyColorado State UniversityCompleting high school opens up new pathways to success for poor youth. Degree completion can provide access to better jobs, healthcare benefits, safer homes, and more secure communities. Yet, many poor youth, in the US and elsewhere, fail to earn this critical degree. This dissertation research examines the case of El Salvador, where only 40% of youth graduate high school and 41% of 16-18 year-olds have dropped out before completing middle school. Nearly one-quarter of the population is between the ages of 10 and 19 and these young people are growing up in the midst of a crisis in youth violence and childhood poverty. This project is a multi-year qualitative study that examines why the majority of poor Salvadoran adolescents are pushed out of school, while some are able to complete their high school degrees. It employs ethnographic fieldwork in one rural and two urban schools, including participant observation in middle school classrooms and focus group interviews. The dissertation will examine how youth disengage academically and identify the factors that put them at-risk for dropout. In its entirety, this project aims to describe the mechanisms that translate poor children's family- and community-based disadvantages into school-based ones. It brings together analysis of what schools demand from students in terms of academic performance and classroom behavior with an examination of how families and communities enable (or fail to enable) youth to meet these conditions and successfully complete high school.Broader Impacts:This dissertation has implications for educational and other social policy reform. It is highly relevant to ongoing school reform projects, particularly in El Salvador. Findings will be shared with policy makers, and with educators, school administrators, and other practitioners at meetings and through conference presentations. More broadly, the dissertation has implications for multilateral development aid initiatives. By providing evidence on the connections between poor youth?s home and community environments and their educational outcomes, the dissertation can be used to inform both educational and broader social policy that supports the goals of improving the achievement and retention of poor youth in the Global South. In addition, the dissertation will provide insights and data that can be applied in other research areas, such as studies of Central American migration patterns or youth violence in the region.

SES-1303548 LORI PEEKMEGHAN MORDYCOLORADO State UniversityCompleting High School为贫穷青年提供了新的成功途径。学位完成可以提供更好的工作机会，医疗保健福利，更安全的房屋和更安全的社区。然而，许多贫穷的青年在美国和其他地方都没有获得这个关键程度。这项论文研究研究了萨尔瓦多的案例，那里只有40％的青年毕业生高中和41％的16-18岁儿童在完成中学之前就辍学了。近四分之一的人口在10至19岁之间，这些年轻人在青年暴力和童年贫困的危机中成长。该项目是一项多年定性研究，研究了为什么大多数贫穷的萨尔瓦多青少年都被赶出学校，而有些则能够完成高中学位。它在一所农村和两所城市学校中使用民族志实地调查，包括中学教室的参与者观察和焦点小组访谈。论文将研究青年如何在学术上脱离接触，并确定使他们处于辍学率的因素。整个项目旨在描述将贫困儿童家庭和基于社区的劣势转化为基于学校的机制。它汇集了对学生在学习成绩和课堂行为方面的学校需求的分析，并检查家庭和社区如何使（或无法使）青年人能够满足这些条件并成功完成高中的影响：这项论文对教育和其他社会政策改革有影响。它与正在进行的学校改革项目高度相关，尤其是在萨尔瓦多。调查结果将与政策制定者，教育者，学校管理人员和其他从业者在会议上和会议演讲中分享。更广泛地说，论文对多边发展援助计划具有影响。通过提供有关贫穷青年的家庭与社区环境之间的联系及其教育成果之间的联系，可以使用论文来告知教育和更广泛的社会政策，以支持改善全球南方贫困青年的成就和保留的目标。此外，论文将提供可以在其他研究领域应用的见解和数据，例如中美洲移民模式的研究或该地区的青年暴力行为。