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¶ … Advisory Programs Can Help Middle School Students in Poverty-Ridden Urban Areas
The focus of this research is implementing advisory programs in poverty urban area middle schools to help students cope with their environment. Economic and social barriers can prevent students at this formative age from maturing and reaching their potential as students. They can cause problems at schools so that the students do not graduate or they can lead students down avenues towards drugs and crime. Advisory programs can be a way to help guide these children out of danger towards a more productive way of life and they can help them to be more successful in their adulthood as a result (Balfanz et al., 2007).
A literature review of this subject will be the approach that this study takes and will provide a meta-analysis that is qualitative in method. This will be a study, therefore, that looks at how advisory programs help inner-city youths to avoid pitfalls that might plague other people in other areas where no advisory program is in place.
There is much literature available from online databases regarding this subject and these can be obtained for the purpose of this study, thus ensuring that a meta-analysis is feasible. Potential challenges involve obtaining a sufficient amount of data from these databases that can provide an adequate assessment. In other words, obtaining a good-size sample of literature may be a challenge, simply because of time and resources available. Overcoming this challenge will require mental preparation, scheduling, and adherence to the plan.
The contribution that this...
The study aims to give an overview of the literature on this subject and distill the information using qualitative analysis so that a clear outline emerges. This would be beneficial to persons within the advisory program field who work to better see how their contributions to the betterment of the life of these students can be facilitated.
This topic is feasible because a qualitative meta-analysis simply depends upon accessing the relevant literature and performing an assessment of the findings in this collection of data. It is interesting because it impacts the next generation, which should be supported by this generation however it can be. It is worthy because it has social value, as mentioned above. And it is relevant because it pertains to problems that society is currently facing -- essentially, how to help urban youths avoid pitfalls associated with their communities.
An example of how this study could be impactful is in if it provides insight as to how successful advisory programs alter the lives of middle school children over time and provide a clear form of guidance for advisors and interventionists in the future for directing the lives of young students as they grow older. Measuring the impact of programs like after-school groups and athletics can help to gauge what is working and what is not, what is effective and…
References
Balfanz, R. (2007). Preventing Student Disengagement and Keeping Students on the Graduation Path in Urban Middle-Grades Schools: Early Identification and Effective Interventions. Educational Psychologist, 42(4): 223-235.
Frazier, S. et al. (2013). Not Just a Walk in the Park: Efficacy to Effectiveness for After
School Programs in Communities of Concentrated Urban Poverty. Administration and Policy in Mental Health Services Research, 40(5): 406-418.
Moore, J. (2015). Principal's perspectives on middles school advisory programs.
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