AERA Annual Meeting: Students Experiencing Homelessness: Key Findings for Practice and Policy Decision Making

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Students Experiencing Homelessness: Key Findings for Practice and Policy Decision Making

Fri, April 22, 8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT), Division Virtual Rooms, Division L - Section 8: Social Policy and Education Virtual Paper Session Room

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Student homelessness is a prevalent problem in the United States. Before the COVID-19 pandemic about 1.4 million students were identified as homeless by education systems. Student homelessness is expected to rise exponentially as evictions moratoria and supports expire despite ongoing economic fallout, necessitating an effective practice and policy response. This session presents lessons learned from data on student homelessness prior to COVID-19. The topics address core issues confronting local and state education agencies mandated to ensure students experiencing homelessness have access to a free and appropriate education: identifying student homelessness, concurrent and longitudinal impacts on education and adaptive functioning, implications of multisystem involvement for school engagement, and the implications of inequity in homelessness based on race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation.

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Division L - Educational Policies and Politics / Division L - Section 8: Social Policy and Education

Chair

Ann M. Aviles, University of Delaware

Students Experiencing Homelessness: Key Findings for Practice and Policy Decision Making

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