Causes Of Poverty In Texas Education

Nelson Mandela once said, "Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great. YOU can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom” (Make Poverty History, 2005). Gwinnett county is third in the country when it comes to a high poverty rate, with 14% of the population living below poverty (Family Promise of Gwinnet County, 2013). As an educator it is important to familiarize with the county of which one is to teach in, and poverty is an issue in Gwinnett county. One must understand the affects of poverty on

Educators have recently understood that low income schools do need the money and that extra support. They have realized that too many places policies for assigning teachers and allocating resources are perpetuating the problem rather than solving it. The breakdown of data that researchers have found out on 2008-09 school-level spending proves that most of the high-poverty schools collect less than what they are supposed

The current state of the Texas education policy is very complex and its roots can be traced all the way back to times were there was no equality in the public school system, we can even say it can be traced as far back to the state’s split from Mexico. This was a very problematic situation that began to be reformed heavily starting in 1954. The legislations that passed to resolve this problem have morphed the Texas Public education policy into what it is today.

A Framework for Understanding Poverty is a valuable tool to the helping profession. It has a lot of good information about the cultural differences between classes. It offers practical solutions to many problems commonly encountered when educators have problems with their students who live in poverty. The book helps educators to assist students who live in poverty survive in the middle-class world. Payne 's work has been eye opening in

Now a day’s Texas is growing profoundly, but as it cultivates so does its problems. One of the major issues facing Texas today is in the education department. The matter ranges from school funding to standardized testing. Not only are students themselves complaining about the matters at hand but also parents, some teachers, and even state legislature. There have always been five major issues in Texas education; school finance, school choice, expanding pre-kindergarten, school calendar, and testing. Of these issues you could never think of them separately because no matter how hard you try they will, in the end, affect one another.

According to the state report card, Salem Elementary School’s socioeconomic status of students is strongly high in poverty. Correspondingly, all of the students enrolled in Salem also have some type of economic disadvantage. As discussed in our EDTE 2020 class, high poverty areas tend to have teachers “with less experience”, who do not have “proper certification”, or who have a “high turnover rate”. This is the complete opposite at Salem, as it’s stated on the report card that all teachers have a bachelor and a master’s degree, with over 72% of teachers being

How does poverty relate to education? The people with a lower educational level have a higher chance of becoming impecunious than those who have high academic achievements.  High school dropouts and high school graduates are more likely of being below the poverty line than college graduates.

Two different factors that lead to poverty can be the lack of education and the structure of a country’s economy. The reason why education leads to poverty is because the lack of access to information forces a person or a group of people to attain the required information to succeed. For example, because a student lacks access to a quality education, they would be more prone to skipping class and putting their mindset elsewhere such as gang violence or drugs. The lack of education is a cycle of poverty as well because students, who do not graduate from high school, normally do not make living wages, creating poverty, and causing their children to live in poverty. A country’s economy leads to poverty because the government provides a false sense

TIS addresses the issue of poverty by offering information about where to access basic living needs at free or reduced costs and identifying homeless students or students who live in homes with too many people for the area of the space. Teachers are instructed to have patience and be less demanding on students known to live out of cars. Clothing is supplied when students outgrow their school uniform yet cannot purchase another. Faculty and staff collect from their own homes when a student and his family show blatant need. The achievement gap is regularly reviewed to be sure that students from low-income families are not falling behind simply because of their housing situation.

I was a high school student that attended one of Texas’s poorest school districts, Edgewood ISD in San Antonio, Texas. The school was comprised of students with low socioeconomic status that were a result of low educational attainment and financial issues. An example was the amount of students obtaining a high school diploma and those wanting to pursue a college degree were extremely low because there wasn’t much support or talk of college education or high school. In fact, students didn’t understand the importance of obtaining a college diploma which allows individuals to have more opportunities in the career fields they desire, provide job stability, better employment benefits, greater income, and much more.

Students living in poverty face undesirable living conditions and chaos outside of the classroom that affects their performance in the classroom.  Children living in poverty often live in unsafe neighborhoods, overcrowded homes, or substandard homes that could be detrimental to their overall health.  Students need the security of safe and secure living conditions so that they can succeed in other areas of their life.

Currently I am learning about families in poverty. In the first week of my class I learned that over 15% of the United States population is living in poverty (Bumpus). The United States has one of the highest poverty rates for being a developed country. Poverty can affect a family in so many ways for example financial stress, health problems, behavioral issues, and poor schooling or education. One of my main focuses is the poor schooling and education. I am currently an Elementary Education major at Washington State University. Becoming a teacher I know that I personally will have students who are living in poverty. There should be a good understanding of what a child goes through under those conditions. There are many factors from living in poverty that contribute to a child’s academic achievement in school, instead of having the poverty rate rise there should be a solution to minimize the rate of poverty.

Why do some kids not have the ability to go to a free public school? Why do some children not go to school at all? There are multiple reasons, but one of the reasons that causes this issue is poverty. Poverty is not just a problem in America, it’s a problem all over the globe. “In Asia, some 74 million of the world’s total 132 million children . . . are not enrolled in primary education” (Bawane and Julius, 2011). In Bawane and Julius’s studies, they also found that there were a little over 72 million kids not currently enrolled in school in 2007. Poverty is an increasing issue all across the planet which is harmful to the minds of young children and can hurt their education. Bawane and Julius stated that poverty is not simply the absence of financial resources, it is also lack of capability to function effectively in society.

Whether it’s the constant chatter of Common Core State Standards or a somewhat unorthodox pick for the United States Secretary of Education, there is daily chatter surrounding education and school reform. The current zeitgeist encompassing school reform and student achievement has caused state systems to take a closer look at the alignment of curriculum, instruction and assessments used in classrooms (Roach, Niebling and Kurz, 2008). The lack of understanding of poverty in preservice teachers present major societal barriers when instructing students. The importance of teachers cultivating an understanding of poverty is almost as important as their content knowledge.

Teaching children of poverty can be very challenging. These children are more likely than their peers to experience poor nutrition, parents with low educational attainment and underemployment, broken families, child abuse and neglect, drug abuse, teen-age pregnancies and high rates of dropping out (Holt & Garcia, 2016). It has been my experience that these students are a little rough around the edges which may cause an educator the inability to see beyond the exterior of the child thus treating them more harshly than their peers. Being employed in a Title 1 school, I have had the pleasure of working with students and families whose major source of income is welfare. They often came from a single-parent household and arrived at school improperly dressed and usually hungry. I found that meeting the child’s basic needs helped them focus on school and took some of the stress off of their parents as they knew their child was in a safe, caring place. One thing that was vital in our classroom was firmness and consistency. Unfortunately, many teachers and schools do not possess the knowledge and experience required for success in these more challenging schools. Impoverished students often do not care about their education nor did their parents seem to care how their children perform in school (Holt & Garcia, 2016). I feel this can be attributed to distraction from just trying to survive. In order to have greater success in the classroom of impoverished students, teachers need to