A Landscape Scan of Research on the K-12 Education of Young People in the United States Who Experience Foster Care, Incarceration, and/or Homelessness

Abstract

This report summarizes a decade of research on the factors that contribute to, or detract from, young people's ability to access and succeed in K-12 schooling when they are experiening foster care, the juvenile justice system, or homelessness. It surfaces gaps and opportunities for future inquiry and investment in research and identifies ways to make the education of this population -- which includes more than 1.6 million young people in America -- a stronger priority for schools and decision makers