By: Amanda Fakhreddine
The "State Report Card on Child Homelessness" was recently released by the National Center for Family Homelessness and describes the conditions of the 17,505 homeless children in Massachusetts. The Report Card focuses on four areas: extent of homelessness, child well-being, structural risk factors, and state-by-state policy and planning efforts. The report only includes children who are a part of families or with a parent, not the unaccompanied youth. Most homeless students around the country score about 16 percent lower on math and reading tests, but homeless children in Massachusetts scored about 20 percent higher than their peers in both areas. Most homeless students are in grades K-8, and those in high school often don't finish, putting them at a huge disadvantage.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
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Love your site and Spare Chance! But please change the site's color scheme--white text on black is really hard to read.
this is very interesting i never new this before because i feel bad for homeless kids and homeless adults people should actullay care for them its not funny to see homeless people but we are luky that we are not home less soo we shouldnt be laguing at them its not funny we are soo luky we are not homeless
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