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A Bad Road Paved with Good Intentions: The Impact of No Child Left Behind on Poor and Minority Students
This paper considers NCLB's [No Child Left Behind] impact on the racial and income achievement gaps the law sought to narrow. It will also explain how, in some ways, NCLB may have actually worked to harm the struggling ...
The National Housing Trust Fund: A Christian Ethical Defense
This paper argues that the National Housing Trust Fund (NHTF) effectively addresses the rental housing shortage for extremely low income (ELI) households and moreover, is compatible with Evangelical Christian moral arguments. ...
Reducing Family Homelessness and Improving Child Outcomes: A Housing-First Approach
Homelessness is a growing concern in the United States, and it has particularly detrimental consequences for children. Homelessness is a severe form of poverty that leads to increased vulnerability to traumatic life ...
The International Law on Climate Change and Its Effect on the World's Poor
This paper first reviews the problem of climate change. Secondly, it surveys current and proposed international law in this area. Third, it examines the contextual situation and the difference that have arisen between ...
Assets and Liberty: Encouraging Healthy Savings Habits for Low-Income Households
Our current welfare system places too much of an emphasis on income and consumption over wealth and assets. The United States has a long history of encouraging asset accumulation for all classes. We also have a long tradition ...
Transforming East Lake: Theoretical and Structural Underpinnings of a Mixed-Income Development
The story of East Lake has been well told in the popular media and has even been deemed "a miracle." This paper supplements those stories by exploring two components of the Villages of East Lake: first, I review the possible ...
Children of Unwed Teen Mothers: Reasons, Outcomes and Solutions
Most studies conclude that children of single parents are at a disadvantage. . . . This paper looks in particular at the most disadvantaged demographic in this subset: teenage never-married mothers. I am focusing on this ...
The Model Minority: Mantra, Myth, and... Mistake?
Since the 1960s, the Asian population in America has been eagerly penned the “model minority,” espousing the ideal of what each minority in America should aspire to be. This translates roughly to high educational achievement ...
Affordable Housing in the Rockbridge Area (Rockbridge County, Lexington City, Buena Vista City)
The Rockbridge Area faces a great change in its culture and heritage if it does not address the quantity of available workforce housing. It has made strives with Threshold and the Buck Hill Community Project. As it moves ...
Assessing the Crisis: Black Males and Secondary Education
In recent years, Black males have been candidly described as an endangered species. This crisis of the Black male has been attributed to several factors and is visible in literally all aspects of society. They are largely ...