skip to main content
skip to newscasts

Friday, March 29, 2024

Public News Service Logo
facebook instagram linkedin reddit youtube twitter
view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

The latest on the Key Bridge collapse, New York puts forth legislation to get clean energy projects on the grid and Wisconsin and other states join a federal summer food program to help feed kids across the country.

view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

Republicans float conspiracy theories on the collapse of Baltimore's Key Bridge, South Carolina's congressional elections will use a map ruled unconstitutional, and the Senate schedules an impeachment trial for Homeland Secretary Mayorkas.

view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

Historic wildfires could create housing and health issues for rural Texans, a Kentucky program helps prison parolees start a new life, and descendants of Nicodemus, Kansas celebrate the Black settlers who journeyed across the 1870s plains seeking self-governance.

Frequent School Changes Linked to Behavior, Attention Problems

play audio
Play

Thursday, October 15, 2015   

INDIANAPOLIS – Children who change schools frequently start falling behind by the time they reach fourth grade, according to a study of low-income children.

The study found that moving from school to school more than twice in the five years from Head Start preschool through third grade correlated with lower scores on math tests.

Allison Friedman-Krauss, assistant research professor at the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University, co-authored the study. She says the difference is about 10 points on standardized achievement tests.

"Children who moved three or four times over that five-year period – compared to children who didn't move frequently – scored lower on the math achievement by about eight months of learning," she points out.

According to Friedman-Krauss that difference puts children who change schools more often in danger of failing to meet state standards.

The research also showed that those same children have more behavioral problems and difficulty paying attention in school, a factor Friedman-Krauss says was central to choosing to look at math scores.

"We were interested in self regulation and there's been a lot of research to show a very robust relationship between self regulation and later math achievement," she states.

The study followed almost 400 low-income children in the Chicago school system.

Friedman-Krauss believes the results indicate the need to take what researchers call school mobility into consideration both in the classroom and in planning curriculum.

"So if children are missing math lessons because they're moving, because there's gaps in the curriculum from school to school, they're going to need extra support from their teachers and the teachers may need extra support from the school," she says.

The authors of the study point out that children from low-income families face many difficulties that can affect school performance, and providing supports for those transitioning to new schools can help.





get more stories like this via email

more stories
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments this week about the popular abortion pill Mifepristone and will weigh in on whether the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was correct in how it can be dosed and prescribed. (Ascannio/Adobe Stock)

Health and Wellness

play sound

Missouri residents are worried about future access to birth control. The latest survey from The Right Time, an initiative based in Missouri…


Social Issues

play sound

Wisconsin children from low-income families are now on track to get nutritious foods over the summer. Federal officials have approved the Badger …

Social Issues

play sound

Almost 2,900 people are unsheltered on any given night in the Beehive State. Gov. Spencer Cox is celebrating signing nine bills he says are geared …


The U.S. teaching workforce remains primarily white while the percentage of Black teachers has declined. However, the percentage of Asian and Latinx teachers is rising.(WavebreakMediaMicro/Adobestock)

Social Issues

play sound

Education advocates are calling on lawmakers to increase funding for programs to combat the teacher shortage. Around 37% of schools nationwide …

Environment

play sound

New York's Legislature is considering a bill to get clean-energy projects connected to the grid faster. It's called the RAPID Act, for "Renewable …

Social Issues

play sound

Earlier this month, a new Arizona Public Service rate hike went into effect and one senior advocacy group said those on a fixed income may struggle …

Social Issues

play sound

Michigan recently implemented a significant juvenile justice reform package following recommendations from a task force made up of prosecutors…

 

Phone: 303.448.9105 Toll Free: 888.891.9416 Fax: 208.247.1830 Your trusted member- and audience-supported news source since 1996 Copyright © 2021