The Importance Of Poverty In Education

What is the main argument the author makes and how does it apply to contemporary education?

The topic is poverty. Por very is affecting child development and educational outcomes. It is a problem because children are. Suffering mental and behavior consequences.children are affected because they are likely to commit crime because of the way they are living. Also, they suffer from mental and physical problems and that is experience hunger. They can experience the lack of education.

The American student experience is much different depending on a variety of factors. Students living in poverty or low income households are not receiving enough support in their education to end the perpetuating cycle that is poverty. First, noting that a student living in a household with a parent or guardian with less education will be more likely to live in a poverty stricken area. Rank and Hirschl (1999) argue that if the head of the household has less than 12 years of education, the student has a higher chance of experiencing poverty compared to a household with more than 12 years of education. With these students living in poverty stricken areas and attending schools that do not have the funding to provide support, it is much more difficult to get the education that they would need to get out of poverty.

There are many people throughout the world that are born into different socio-economic status. In the United States there are 3 typical socio-economic statuses, upper class, middle class, and working class. The majority of people are born into the working class and try to make their way up. The main way people believe to go up a class in America is through education, but how does socio-economic class play a role in the amount of education one will receive in their future?

Within the United Kingdom, a recurring issue has been raised regarding the political position of Scotland and how the Scottish Parliament could better govern the country. To establish whether the quality of life could be improved for the Scottish people, key events, devolution, and the Scottish Parliament must be evaluated and analysed. The argument for greater power in decision making and the ability to implement change for the citizens of Scotland, has been central to Scottish politics for some time.

Poverty has been a prevalent problem in the United States for decades, around seven in fact. Since the Great Depression in the fifties, the government has sworn to fight poverty in America so that every citizen may live the American Dream. In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty, and while this was just a figure of speech, his plan was to make the people of America, and its politicians realize that fighting poverty was a moral battle. He compelled them to take up the fight, because poverty is by far one of the greatest evils in our modern world.

Educators are perhaps the best super humans out there at this point in age. They constantly have to change and adapt new skills to keep up with new technology, psychological upgrades and environmental traumas that impact students. In Eric Jensen’s Teaching with Poverty in Mind provides new techniques future and current educators should use to combat the impact that poverty has on students, mentally, emotionally and physically. Jensen’s text has strengthened my opinions on education as well as added new views towards my future career as a high school educator.

However, government strategies have helped to some extent as figures show that poverty is decreasing, children living in relative poverty has fell by 60,000 between 2008 and 2012. There is also a rise in people undertaking collage and university courses in Scotland. This will mean that in years to come that there will be more and more adults able to get well paid skilled jobs and in turn this will reduce the numbers living in poverty. The reason for this may be because that these fees are paid by the government, this means that people from all areas of society are able to aim to go to university. Thus, social divisions are reduced as you do not need to be from an affluent family to gain access to further education. Overall, poverty is still a very significant divide in todays society. In particular child poverty is still at a very high rate still although haven fallen in recent years. Other areas such as pensioner poverty has also fallen alongside all those living in relative poverty. However, although these have all fallen in statistics the minority still own the majority share of wealth – the wealthiest 10% of households in Scotland owned 44% of private wealth in 2010/1012. This is clearly showing that Scotland is still divided to a large extent.

Poverty is “the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor” (Dictionary.com, 2017). Based off this definition poverty is a condition that can cause a cascade of cause and effect actions that is detrimental to families and individuals both physically and mentally. Haan, Kaplan, & Camacho (2017) completed a study on the correlation between social and economic status and health in adults in Oakland, CA. They found that the lower the socioeconomic class the higher incidents of diseases and deaths related to chronic diseases (p.1161-1162). Just being without money or little money was not the only indication of health indication, a person living in an area with higher poverty issues

Read Chapter 5 of Teaching with Poverty in Mind and look closely at the “CHAMPS” anagram on pages 128-129. On the next two pages, fill in the skill corresponding to each letter and, to the right of the arrows, reflect on how you currently teach (or could teach) that skill in your classroom.

“One of the most powerful ways to engage students is to let them take charge of their own learning.” Eric Jensen author of Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids’ Brains and What Schools Can Do about It

With the United Kingdom being the 3rd European country with the highest GDP it is rather difficult to assume that issues such as negative economic growth, rising unemployment (Mooney and Scott, 2012) and consequently poverty would have any magnitude in its territory. However poverty does appear to be an issue in Scotland, even though it contributes as the 2nd largest percentage on UK’s GVA (7.7% ONS, 2012). With the acceptance of the referendum Scotland was aiming for independence and therefore taking in its own hands decision making regarding sectors such as the economic one by prioritizing and making the right decisions in order to tackle issues such as that of poverty. After September 18th 2014 economic changes concerning currency, unemployment and natural resources would have an impact on Scotland’s current issues regarding poverty.

Modern Scottish politics was established in 1999 , then called the Scottish Executive rather than the Scottish Government. The current Scottish Government has control over a certain number of devolved matters whilst Westminster in England retains control of decisions affecting the whole of the United Kingdom. This modern day form of Scottish politics was very much influenced by the events and state of a post-war Britain in which many people across Scotland wanted change and more independence from the London-centric Westminster. A number of the aspects of the modern Scottish devolved political system intentionally vary from certain ones of Westminster in an effort to be more representative of the Scottish people and will be analysed and evaluated in this essay.

In today’s world people need to compete globally for jobs and one of the most important factors in getting a good paying job is education. However, even the best schools cannot overcome some of the obstacles placed in front of the students that walk through their doors. Poverty, chaotic home environments, discrepancies in exposure to technology, and lack of funding for schools all negatively impact the effort to educate children.

It has been proven again and again that class has a huge impact on children’s success in school and education. The inequalities in our education system start as early as birth and continue through high school and even college. Typically, articles related to class and education fall under two distinct categories. One type says that better education will fix poverty and the other states that in order to fix education we need to fix poverty. The truth of the matter is that one will not fix the other, but rather they need to work together to be effective. In order to promote a democratic society in our public schools, there needs to be major improvements made in both of these categories.