Introduction
A. Attention Getter: Nearly one half of the world’s population is living in poverty. Living in a low income household can have many influences on a child's life, a large one being education.
B. Thesis Statement: To better understand how we can achieve education equality, we need to understand how poverty affects one’s education, how it affects one’s health, and what we can do to help.
C. Preview: We’ll talk about how poverty affects education, how poverty affects health, and what we can do to help.
Transition: Education is affected by many factors, the first one we’ll examine is the effects of poverty.
Body
1. How poverty affects one’s education.
A.Economic segregation is a problem in preschool classrooms across the country, according to the article “Let Rich and Poor Learn Together”. Poor children are being separated from the classrooms of the higher class children. Research shows that poor children do much better academically in classes that are economically mixed than they do if the classes are more economically segregated. Research also shows that children who are well-off are not academically harmed by attending school with poor children.
B. A few child care centers successfully mix children of different economic classes, in
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Parenting styles also have an effect on children's learning abilities. New research found that parenting styles between high income white families and low income black families account for some of the differences in school readiness between their children. According to the article “How Poverty Affects Learning Ability” white adults spend 36% more time than black adults reading to young children, and three more times talking and listening to their children. White adults also offer more guidance towards her children. By age 6, white children have spent 1300 more hours talking with adults than black children have. White parents offer the children more choices in daily life, while black pants tend to be more
In her article “All Kids Should Take Poverty 101”, Donna Beagle discusses the importance of educating everyone about poverty. It is her belief that education can lead to the eradication of poverty. In her article, Beegle uses her childhood experiences to describe why those who do not experience poverty first hand have a lack of understanding. Beegle’s article proves that all socio-economic levels can benefit from learning about the causes and misperceptions of poverty, so that poverty is viewed as a human issue.
These systemic obstacles that create circumstances that hinder the education attainment of the poor can be changed, their limits lessened, by positive actions to elevate living conditions – given the school system promotes and
Children living in poverty or low-income neighborhoods are known to have lifelong struggles because of their education. The link between poverty and poor education is a known fact because children living in poverty will rather provide for their families than their own education. As a community, we need to come together to help low-income families and their children obtain a better future in their education. The effects of children living in poverty or low-income neighborhoods is a known issue worldwide and is only affecting our children’s future and ours.
Regardless of the mental attitude of individuals, poverty does affect the relation one has with his/her education. For example, low-income families often struggle obtaining materials
A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby K. Payne builds a model for combating poverty by tackling it at the earliest level of perpetuation-in schools. Schools, Payne advocates, should be the first line of defense against encroaching poverty and also the most effective weapon to beat it back. Unlike most economic tools, schools should be fine-tuned and deployed according to strict frameworks. Payne identifies two types of poverty and list eight resources which makes one a candidate. The thrust is thus primarily on how to deal with poverty in schools and how to equip the students with tools and education
Therefore, children who live in these poor neighborhoods are less likely to participate in school events. Poverty effects the intellectual, emotional and physical development of children. Wood discusses that children living in poverty have a harder time focusing in class and do not do as well in school. Wood uses facts stating that students who are growing up in a poor environment have lower IQ
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Getting an education is considered a blessing too many, in America many of us believe that everybody should get equality when it comes down to education, but is that really the case? I believe that education is something that many of us take advantage of, especially when you are a kid and you think your education is free and you dread waking up early in the morning for school. Though, when you grow older we are glad that we have received an education and we can contribute to new technology, or we have the opportunity to create a top selling novel, learn about the history of the world, or just knowing why the sky is blue. We all know, and if you don’t you
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I choose the topic poverty because it is an issue that affect many people. Poverty is issue that many assume occurs only in a third world country instead of the United States. Poverty occurs in the United States however it is not broadcast on national television. As the researcher, my objective is to highlight the cause and effect of poverty. Most individuals who work low wage jobs live paycheck to paycheck and rely on public assistance as supplement. Different issue contributes to poverty is job loss, Divorce, and low wages. Wages is a major component of poverty it is a struggle raising a family off minimum wage one must calculate the cost of living such as rent, car note, and kids necessity. Poverty has a negative effect on families such
The most common issue that is upcoming in North America is education. A rising issue is dealing with the education of low-income children. For the community an education is a rising issue among individuals who are below the poverty line. The correlation with children from lower income families and their struggle to achieve an education. The government should see this as a necessity to provide students who are from a low –income family with the required services/programs to achieve their goals.
Poverty is a vicious cycle that inevitably affects future generations. By breaking the cycle of poverty with education, better government
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Department of Education, “documents that schools serving low-income students are being shortchanged because school districts across the country are inequitably distributing their state and local funds”. (Education, 2011). Students that come from low income families are not given the equal chance to get the education that students from high income families get. If students are not given the tools they need to be educated, then they will have a poor chance of succeeding in the world.
Poverty is a considerable social problem; with a significant impact on those who suffer within. Growing up in poverty “reduces a child’s chance of growing up to be a healthy, well-adjusted, and contributing adult in our society” (Crosson-Tower, 2014, p. 59). Poverty is families having to struggle to afford necessities. Poverty does not know where your next meal is coming from or having to choose between paying rent and seeing a health care provider. The impact of poverty affects one’s ability through physical, social, emotional, and educational health. Even though individual overcome poverty it still extends across cultural, racial, ethnic, and geographical borders. Children represent the largest group of poverty in the United States. “Growing up in poverty places a child at a profound disadvantage and substantially lowers the chances that the child will mature into a well-adjusted, productive, and contributing