Abstract:Research on adolescent responsibilities outside of school rarely considers how schools and teachers mitigate the adverse consequences of those responsibilities on academic outcomes. We seek to understand when, and for whom, teachers and administrators accommodate students' out-ofschool commitments. Analysing 61 interviews with teachers and staff at five high schools that serve predominantly low-income students and survey responses from teachers across Wisconsin (N = 601), we find that staff identify responsibi… Show more
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