{"id":2870,"date":"2012-02-07T15:18:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T20:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/?p=2870"},"modified":"2012-02-11T20:57:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T01:57:43","slug":"smaller-funds-bigger-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2012\/02\/07\/smaller-funds-bigger-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Smaller Funds, Bigger Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2871\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2871\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wlscience\/4569761556\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2871  \" title=\"Photo by Ben+Sam via flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/files\/2012\/02\/4569761556_a6154df160.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Ben+Sam via flickr\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2012\/02\/4569761556_a6154df160.jpg 375w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2012\/02\/4569761556_a6154df160-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2871\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Ben+Sam via flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Raising healthy kids is usually seen as a result of some magical combination of resources and education in a child\u2019s home, school, and neighborhood. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0277953611007167\">newly released study<\/a> by Penn State sociologists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociology.psu.edu\/people\/faculty\/martin.shtml\">Molly Martin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociology.psu.edu\/people\/faculty\/frisco.shtml\">Michelle Frisco<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pop.psu.edu\/directory\/cln153\">Claudia Nau<\/a>\u00a0and the Census Bureau&#8217;s Kristin Burnett,\u00a0however, finds poverty at schools has a greater effect on adolescent obesity than poverty or low education at home.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Well-educated parents are less likely to raise overweight children, but according to the study\u2019s findings, if the student attends a poor school, the effect of his or her parents&#8217; education is minimized. According to the online news source\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.futurity.org\/health-medicine\/at-cash-strapped-schools-obesity-rules\/\">Futurity<\/a>&#8216;s <\/em>report on the research\u00a0, \u201cA parent with a graduate degree who has a child in a poor school is more likely to raise an overweight adolescent than a parent with an eighth grade education who has an adolescent enrolled in a rich school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe environment can actually limit our ability to make the choices that we all think we make freely,\u201d Frisco says. Martin maintains that poor schools influence a student&#8217;s weight even beyond the typically-blamed unhealthy food choices. Low-funded schools have a difficult time offering athletic or fitness programs. Martin also argues that low income schools may house students with higher levels of stress. &#8220;Schools with limited financial resources tend to be more stressful environments,\u201d Martin says. \u201cStress promotes weight gains and usually the worst kinds of weight gains.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raising healthy kids is usually seen as a result of some magical combination of resources and education in a child\u2019s home, school, and neighborhood. A newly released study by Penn State sociologists Molly Martin, Michelle Frisco, and Claudia Nau\u00a0and the Census Bureau&#8217;s Kristin Burnett,\u00a0however, finds poverty at schools has a greater effect on adolescent obesity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[60,34,3182,119],"class_list":["post-2870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-adolescence","tag-education","tag-obesity","tag-poverty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2870"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2894,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions\/2894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}