Children In Economically Disparate Families

Ethan Raby

MPA 565

8/3/2016

Final Exam

Need:

 According to Maloney et al., children in economically disparate families are more likely to fall behind in math and language studies.

 Factors that occur within schools only account for 20% of a child’s success rate.

 Factors that occur outside of the school, especially pertaining to family life, account for 60% of a child’s success rate.

 According to Maloney et al., children in higher social economic status families hear more diverse language which leads to better comprehension.

 Children’s success in math is directly related to the caregiver’s anxiety or lack thereof towards math achievement.

 Care givers who do not have the necessary environment that includes self-efficacy, planning, and

 Children may not have the proper transportation in order to become a part of these early childhood education programs.

Barriers:

Children in lower economic status families face several barriers to accessing high-quality early childhood education programs. Children who come from economically disparate families may have parents who aren’t able to or won’t get involved with their child’s education. The parents also may not understand what it means to give high quality care for their children. The parents also may face several other issues such as distrust of authorities, inability to afford programs, and inability to provide proper transportation related to educational programs.

Overarching Goal:

To aid children’s parents to get involved with their child’s education through economic support and parenting education as well as increase access to high-quality early childhood education which will help their children to achieve success and bridge the intellectual gap between lower and higher social economic status

Circulate emails to parents and caregivers of lower social economic statuses that will help them learn how to give higher quality educational care for their children.

2. Host workshops for parents that will aid them in learning how to be better teachers for their children.

3. Establish a high-quality early childhood education curriculum that focuses on giving economically disadvantaged children aid in learning math and language skills.

4. Focus the advertisement and admission of children into the program who come from backgrounds that have several educational risk factors.

5. Follow up with parents through home visits to gauge how the child is learning and how the parents can improve their caregiving.

6. Assign tutors to students so that the children can receive one-on-one attention in continuously improving their studies.

Impact:

Both the parents and the children will be greatly impacted by this early childhood education program. The parents will benefit through having increased knowledge in the best practices for educating children and providing a stable environment for their children to learn. The children will benefit from being taught the necessary skills to be successful in school and in life. This impact is incredibly important for the public as well because these children will grow up to bring their own impact on the world. This program will bring good education to these children which will bring a brighter future to