Question

Select the excerpt that is an example of an APA in-text citation with an attributive phrase.


Those in poverty are also more likely than other children to drop out of school altogether. In fact, students from low-income families are five times more likely to drop out of school than those from families with higher incomes (Chapman et al., 2011, p. 6). Unfortunately, young people who leave school without a high school diploma will find it difficult to find jobs as adults, perpetuating the cycle of poverty.


Increased absenteeism is one way that poverty affects academic performance. Children from low-income families are more than four times likely to be absent from school than their peers (Chang & Romero, 2008, p.13).


State legislatures set the standards that decide if a student is eligible to receive vouchers (National Conference of State Legislatures, n.d.). Vouchers, or "school coupons," are given to low-income families with students in low-performing schools to help them pay for tuition at higher-performing private or different public schools.


Sean Slade, Senior Director of Global Outreach at the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) believes that how we fund our school systems is fundamentally flawed. He writes, "We have established systems that perpetuate and even accentuate poverty. Schools in low socioeconomic areas are underfunded when compared to higher socioeconomic neighborhoods" (2015).

Answer 1

The last excerpt (the Sean Slade quotation). It names the author in the sentence ("Sean Slade, Senior Director...") — an attributive phrase — with the year in parentheses after the quoted material.