Opportunity to Learn
The Health Connection
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4757104 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shirley Jackson (corresponding author), Shirley A Jackson (0000-0002-6423-6886) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 377 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Negro Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-2984 • E-ISSN: 2167-6437 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2295472 |
| OpenAlex | W2013210983 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 3 |
Children, especially poor African American children, are not afforded an equal opportunity to learn if the key barriers to their health have not been addressed-no matter what the planned reform or compensatory or enrichment educational strategies may be. Therefore, any serious, committed effort to provide poor African American students with an opportunity to learn must include a comprehensive approach to addressing the health and social environment barriers that interfere with these children reaching their potentials as students and citizens (National Commission on the Role of the School and the Community in Improving Adolescent Health, 1990; National Health Education Consortium, 1990). Addressing the specific questions and issues regarding health-related barriers to learning that affect America's minorities who are living in poverty, especially African Americans, is the subject of this article. As a report on business and the public schools issued by the Committee for Economic Development warns
Connection (principal bundle) · Mathematics education · Political science · Sociology · Engineering · Global Health Workforce Issues · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology · School Health and Nursing Education
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2012 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |