Research shows that children living in violent neighborhoods experience trauma that makes them more difficult to teach. These students are more likely to get lower test scores, drop out of high school and develop depression, attention problems and/or discipline problems.
Now a new study at Johns Hopkins University finds that students who are in the same classes as these children also don’t learn as well, scoring as much as 10 percent lower on annual tests.
The findings, published in the...
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source https://psychcentral.com/news/2018/06/18/urban-violence-creates-ripple-effects-in-schools/136305.html
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