While it’s difficult to get an exact number, researchers estimate that between 10 and 20 percent of children are exposed to domestic violence each year.
New data quantifies what many teachers and school counselors already know: While such violence often takes place outside of school, its repercussions resonate in the classroom.
It hurts not only the kids who witness the violence, but also their classmates. The harm is evident in lower test scores as well as lower rates of college attendance and completion. And the impact extends past graduation ”” it can be seen in lower earnings later in life.
“It’s a sad story,” says Scott Carrell, economist at the University of California, Davis, who has studied this for over a decade.
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(NPR) How Domestic Violence In One Home Affects Every Child In A Class
While it’s difficult to get an exact number, researchers estimate that between 10 and 20 percent of children are exposed to domestic violence each year.
New data quantifies what many teachers and school counselors already know: While such violence often takes place outside of school, its repercussions resonate in the classroom.
It hurts not only the kids who witness the violence, but also their classmates. The harm is evident in lower test scores as well as lower rates of college attendance and completion. And the impact extends past graduation ”” it can be seen in lower earnings later in life.
“It’s a sad story,” says Scott Carrell, economist at the University of California, Davis, who has studied this for over a decade.
Read it all.