Poverty and Education Kelly Robinson
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Video Children in Poverty: This is Why The American People are Fed up with this System Children in Poverty: This is Why The American People are Fed up with this System.mp4.(2012, October 2.) Retrieved June 10, 2015, from
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Statistics in million people living in poverty The poverty rate for children under 18 in 2013 was 19.9% 19.9 million Americans live in extreme poverty. DeNavas-Walt, Carmen and Bernadette D. Proctor U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Reports, P "Income and Poverty in the United States: 2013." U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.
Health and Nutrition Children in poverty are less likely to: Exercise Seek medical attention Be prescribed appropriate medication Eat foods with proper nutritional value Jensen, Eric (May 2013). How Poverty Affects Classroom Engagement Retrieved from: Engagement.aspx
Vocabulary By age 4 children hear: 13 million words in low-income families 26 million words in middle-class families 46 million words in upper-income families Jensen, Eric (May 2013). How Poverty Affects Classroom Engagement Retrieved from: Classroom-Engagement.aspx
Effort Students may: Seem unmotivated due to lack of hope for their future Have depressive tendencies due to financial hardships “I give up” attitude Jensen, Eric (May 2013). How Poverty Affects Classroom Engagement Retrieved from: Classroom-Engagement.aspx
Hope Mind-Set Students in low-income families believe: No hope for their future They are helpless Why should I try? Jensen, Eric (May 2013). How Poverty Affects Classroom Engagement Retrieved from: Classroom-Engagement.aspx
Cognition Children in low-income families often: Perform below average on standardized tests Have short attention spans Easily distracted Difficulty finding new solutions to problems Jensen, Eric (May 2013). How Poverty Affects Classroom Engagement Retrieved from:
Relationships Relationships between children and parents in low-income families are: Chaotic Stressed Unstable Not trusting Jensen, Eric (May 2013). How Poverty Affects Classroom Engagement Retrieved from: leadership/may13/vol70/num08/How-Poverty-Affects-Classroom-Engagement.aspx
Distress Made up of chronic and acute stress Acute- normal part of everyday life (results from a specific event) Chronic- repeated exposure to the same type of stressors Distress affects: Brain development Success in school Social interactions Jensen, Eric (May 2013). How Poverty Affects Classroom Engagement Retrieved from: Engagement.aspx
Why is this an issue? Growing number of children living in poverty Jobs are becoming harder to find and more demanding Everything is more expensive
How can we help? tm Positive role model Encourage and support students Celebrate the small milestones Connect families to resources for them to use