Culture, Poverty, and Education What’s Happening in Today’s Schools?
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Culture, Poverty, and Education What’s Happening in Today’s Schools?

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Full Title

Culture, Poverty, and Education What\'s Happening in Today\'s Schools?
Author(s)

Michele Wages
Edition
ISBN

9781475820133, 9781475820126, 9781475820119
Publisher

Bloomsbury USA
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PDF and EPUB

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Most changes in education—including the rise of standardized testing, holding teachers accountable for their students’ academic performance, and rewriting math and reading standards—don’t address poverty. Understanding the relationship between poverty, class, and education for decades has been framed through studies on the behavior and culture of poor students and their families. Educators are caught up in the history of classism and are often guilty of buying into the mindset—including the implementation of activities and strategies for working with ‘parents’ in poverty or ‘students’ in poverty—that leads them to believe in the need to ‘fix’ the poor instead of eliminating the inequities that oppress them. So it is not just one or the other; nature or nurture, poor or not poor. Poverty is a potential outcome for all of us. Culture, Poverty, and Education: What’s Happening in Today’s Schools? is intended to not only discuss 5 myths about the culture of poverty and its effects on education, but provide some resources on alternatives for educator’s to better address this growing barrier to student achievement in today’s schools.

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