Encouraging Student Success Through Innovative Pathways
Abstract
Healthy adolescent development requires a broad range of academic, social, creative, interpersonal and physical opportunities. Unfortunately, poverty often derails these opportunities, leaving young people to struggle without support, guidance and, in many cases, basic education. This is especially apparent in Philadelphia, which with a rate of 12.9% tops the list of large cities for residents living in deep poverty; deep poverty is defined as those who live below half the federal poverty level. In Philadelphia, that means that a family of three is living on an annual income of about $10,000 (Lubrano, 2014). Forty percent of all children are living below the poverty line, and 90% of students in the School District of Philadelphia (SDP) live in poverty and receive free or reduced lunches (Anonymous, 2010).
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