Skip to main content

Home/ Diigo In Education/ Group items tagged poverty

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
doctorikeda

One in eight children in Hawaiʻi live in poverty, according to KIDS COUNT dat... - 10 views

www.hawaii.edu/...y-according-to-kids-count-data

children poverty data

shared by doctorikeda on 22 Jul 15 - No Cached
  • “We have more children in poverty now, more children living in high-poverty neighborhoods, and over a quarter of our children living in families where parents lack secure employment,
  • To read the full report, visit the Annie E. Casey Foundation website.
Lorinda Cain-Bowles

Poverty, family stress are thwarting student success, top teachers say - The Washington... - 43 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...4-833c-a2de05b6b2a4_story.html

poverty education family teaching

shared by Lorinda Cain-Bowles on 27 May 15 - No Cached
  • Lorinda Cain-Bowles on 27 May 15
     
    Biggest barriers to learning
danthomander

Mapping the Concentration of Poverty in U.S. Public Schools - CityLab - 60 views

www.citylab.com/...393095

poverty u s public schools

shared by danthomander on 15 May 15 - Cached
  • 1) Poor kids are six times more likely to attend ‘high-poverty’ public schools
  • danthomander on 15 May 15
     
    "Who attends America's "high-poverty" public schools-and where."
Derrick Grose

Ballads Not Bullets - 8 views

clatoolbox.ca/...331media.html

poverty food nutrition banks music Tom Jackson Marie Clements NFB documentaries documentary film media

shared by Derrick Grose on 02 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • Derrick Grose on 02 Feb 15
     
    School Libraries in Canada provides links to free documentaries on food-related topics with a particular focus on "Ballads Not Bullets" which focuses on how First Nations singer and actor Tom Jackson escaped from the streets to use his music to fight against poverty and homelessness; the film demonstrates the importance of using personal talents and skills to give back to society.
  • Derrick Grose on 02 Feb 15
     
    School Libraries in Canada provides links to free documentaries on food-related topics with a particular focus on "Ballads Not Bullets" which focuses on how First Nations singer and actor Tom Jackson escaped from the streets to use his music to fight against poverty and homelessness; the film demonstrates the importance of using personal talents and skills to give back to society.
Freda Potter

Greeks Discover the Politics of Poverty | NationofChange - 8 views

www.nationofchange.org/er-politics-poverty-1329498412

Greece politics poverty

shared by Freda Potter on 21 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Goerge Barkouris (62), who found himself homeless for the first time in his life during the massive wave of unemployment in 2010, lost his home last November. Barkuris had worked for over 25 years in music and radio production but lost a contract with the public sector due to cuts in 2001. He then worked as a freelancer until 2008, but "when the crisis hit it was impossible to make money to pay for my house," he said. He has now found shelter in Klimaka’s hostel for homeless people in exchange for contributing to its street work program, which consists of riding Klimaka’s van around the streets of Athens, handing out food and other assistance to people in need.
    • Freda Potter
      Freda Potter on 21 Nov 13
       
      Pathos
  • "The municipality, in cooperation with private entrepreneurs, plans to open big hotels that had previously been shut down because of the crisis and transform them into one-night shelters." She believes this process will be fast-tracked and happen in a non-transparent manner, raising questions about how municipal authorities open up space to private entities and tackle social issues like poverty
  • On Feb. 8, Eurostat published a report estimating that 27.7 percent of the active workforce, aged 18-64 years old, currently lives on the poverty line.
  • ...2 more annotations...
  • On Feb. 8, Eurostat published a report estimating that 27.7 percent of the active workforce, aged 18-64 years old, currently lives on the poverty line.
  • On Feb. 8, Eurostat published a report estimating that 27.7 percent of the active workforce, aged 18-64 years old, currently lives on the poverty line.
Matt Renwick

Educational Leadership:Faces of Poverty:Boosting Achievement by Pursuing Diversity - 19 views

www.ascd.org/...ent-by-Pursuing-Diversity.aspx

poverty

shared by Matt Renwick on 02 May 13 - No Cached
    • Matt Renwick
      Matt Renwick on 02 May 13
       
      This is a critical point. Allowing middle class families to pick and choose where there kids should go without valid reasons (i.e. work) can hurt high poverty schools.
    • Matt Renwick
      Matt Renwick on 02 May 13
       
      Have we?
  • Residential poverty tends to be concentrated, and successful school integration requires either a district with enough socioeconomic diversity within its boundaries or a group of neighboring districts which, when combined, have enough diversity to facilitate an interdistrict integration plan.
  • ...15 more annotations...
  • A weighted lottery is the simplest way for schools to ensure that they enroll a diverse student body while still relying on choice-based enrollment.
    • Matt Renwick
      Matt Renwick on 02 May 13
       
      A possible solution?
  • ndividual success stories and a review of research suggest that it is possible, by offering all students a single challenging curriculum, to reduce the achievement gap without harming the highest achievers (Burris, Wiley, Welner, & Murphy, 2008; Rui, 2009).
  • In the middle grades, students at City Neighbors start their day with half an hour of highly specialized, small-group instruction called intensive. Intensive provides an opportunity for extra support or enrichment in different subjects, allowing teachers to meet different students' needs while still teaching most of the academic time in mixed-ability classrooms.
    • Matt Renwick
      Matt Renwick on 02 May 13
       
      Sounds like an intervention block, something many buildings have or are looking at.
  • small but growing number of schools are attempting to boost the achievement of low-income students by shifting enrollment to place more low-income students in mixed-income schools. Socioeconomic integration is an effective way to tap into the academic benefits of having high-achieving peers, an engaged community of parents, and high-quality teachers.
  • A 2010 meta-analysis found that students of all socioeconomic statuses, races, ethnicities, and grade levels were likely to have higher mathematics performance if they attended socioeconomically and racially integrated schools (Mickelson & Bottia, 2010).
  • Research supporting socioeconomic integration goes back to the famous Coleman Report, which found that the strongest school-related predictor of student achievement was the socioeconomic composition of the student body (Coleman et al., 1966).
  • nd results of the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress in mathematics show steady increases in low-income 4th graders' average scores as the percentage of poor students in their school decreases (U.S. Department of Education, 2011).
  • a number of studies have found that the relationship between student outcomes and the socioeconomic composition of schools is strong even after controlling for some of these factors, using more nuanced measures of socioeconomic status, or comparing outcomes for students randomly assigned to schools (Reid, 2012; Schwartz, 2012).
  • Rumberger and Palardy (2005) found that the socioeconomic composition of the school was as strong a predictor of student outcomes as students' own socioeconomic status.
  • Socioeconomic integration is a win-win situation: Low-income students' performance rises; all students receive the cognitive benefits of a diverse learning environment (Antonio et al., 2004; Phillips, Rodosky, Muñoz, & Larsen, 2009); and middle-class students' performance seems to be unaffected up to a certain level of integration.
  • A recent meta-analysis found "growing but still inconclusive evidence" that the achievement of more advantaged students was not harmed by desegregation policies (Harris, 2008, p. 563).
  • he findings suggested that, more than a precise threshold, what mattered in these schools was maintaining a critical mass of middle-class families, which promoted a culture of high expectations, safety, and community support.
  • istricts have chosen to let school boundaries reflect or even amplify residential segregation.
psmiley

Education - AERA Essential Reading on Education and Poverty - Wiley Online Library - 4 views

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/...g_on_education_and_poverty.htm

education essential reading poverty online library

shared by psmiley on 23 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • psmiley on 23 Apr 13
     
    Poverty and its Impact in Education - resources to address this most pressing problem
onepulledthread

Researching Children's Understandings of Poverty and Risk in Diverse Contexts Crivello... - 2 views

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/...full

children poverty society global

shared by onepulledthread on 19 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • onepulledthread on 19 Apr 13
     
    "Throughout the world, children experience and manage risk as a part of their everyday lives. But growing up poor may be a particular source of vulnerability and disadvantage for children, especially where they are confronted with gross inequalities. The global challenge is huge. By 2015, it is estimated that nearly one-third of the world's population will be under the age of 14. At the same time, children are disproportionately represented among the world's poor. More than 30 per cent of children in developing countries - about 600 million - live on less than US $1 a day (UNICEF, 2008). In this special issue of Children & Society, we present eight papers focusing on children's everyday experiences of poverty and risk in developing country contexts.
Steve Ransom

Tracking America: Poverty and Policy - 3 views

www.trackingpovertyandpolicy.org

data poverty statistics tool visual visualization interactive

shared by Steve Ransom on 05 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 05 Nov 12
     
    Nice set of manipulatable visualizations to explore basic data and trends and relationships dealing with poverty, gender, and level of educational attainment.
Steve Ransom

The fantasies driving school reform: A primer for education graduates - The Answer Shee... - 5 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...gIQA5vwzLU_blog.html

education reform poverty teachers gr8 speech research black minority poor

shared by Steve Ransom on 14 May 12 - No Cached
  • Richard Rothstein
  • In truth, this conventional view relies upon imaginary facts.
  • Let me repeat: black elementary school students today have better math skills than white students did only twenty years ago.
  • ...11 more annotations...
  • As a result, we’ve wasted 15 years avoiding incremental improvement, and instead trying to upend a reasonably successful school system.
  • But the reason it hasn’t narrowed is that your profession has done too good a job — you’ve improved white children’s performance as well, so the score gap persists, but at a higher level for all.
  • Policymakers, pundits, and politicians ignore these gains; they conclude that you, educators, have been incompetent because the test score gap hasn’t much narrowed.
  • If you believe public education deserves greater support, as I do, you will have to boast about your accomplishments, because voters are more likely to aid a successful institution than a collapsing one.
  • In short, underemployment of parents is not only an economic crisis — it is an educational crisis. You cannot ignore it and be good educators.
  • equally important educational goals — citizenship, character, appreciation of the arts and music, physical fitness and health, and knowledge of history, the sciences, and literature.
  • If you have high expectations, your students can succeed regardless of parents’ economic circumstances. That is nonsense.
  • health insurance; children are less likely to get routine and preventive care that middle class children take for granted
  • If they can’t see because they don’t get glasses to correct vision difficulties, high expectations can’t teach them to read.
  • Because education has become so politicized, with policy made by those with preconceptions of failure and little understanding of the educational process, you are entering a field that has become obsessed with evaluating only results that are easy to measure, rather than those that are most important. But as Albert Einstein once said, not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted, counts.
  • To be good educators, you must step up your activity not only in the classroom, but as citizens. You must speak up in the public arena, challenging those policymakers who will accuse you only of making excuses when you speak the truth that children who are hungry, mobile, and stressed, cannot learn as easily as those who are comfortable.
  • Steve Ransom on 14 May 12
     
    An important read for anyone who truly wants to understand what's really important in education and the false reform strategies of our current (and past) administration.
Steve Ransom

Stephen Krashen Pulls the Rug Out From Under the Standards Movement - Living in Dialogu... - 3 views

blogs.edweek.org/...hen_krashen_pulls_the_rug.html

education poverty achievement standards reform testing research statistics

shared by Steve Ransom on 05 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • ur average scores are respectable but unspectacular because, as Farhi notes, we have such a high percentage of children living in poverty, the highest of all industrialized countries. Only four percent of children in high-scoring Finland, for example, live in poverty. Our rate of poverty is over 21%.
  • It means that the "problem" of American education is not ineffective teaching, not teachers' unions, not lack of national standards and tests, and not schools of education: It is poverty.
  • Steve Ransom on 05 Apr 12
     
    "It means that the "problem" of American education is not ineffective teaching, not teachers' unions, not lack of national standards and tests, and not schools of education: It is poverty." Sarah's comment is heartbreaking
Steve Ransom

Prof. Stephen Krashen 12-08-2011 on Vimeo - 51 views

vimeo.com/33371571

video poverty ranking education students school achievement international reform change

shared by Steve Ransom on 09 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 09 Jan 12
     
    Primary conditions that impact achievement: ---------- 1. poverty 2. access to school library/books at school/books at home ---------- Suggestions: 1. ramp up school meal programs 2. more/better healthcare for kids at school/school nurses 3. better access to books & libraries at school, community, and home. ----------- How to pay for it? - cut testing and divert those funds to the above :-)
  • Maria del Rocio Costa on 10 Jan 12
     
    Thank you for sharing.
  • Steve Ransom on 10 Jan 12
     
    Most welcome! Glad you found it.
Roland Gesthuizen

I want to give poor children computers and walk away - opinion - 14 December 2011 - New... - 6 views

www.newscientist.com/...n-computers-and-walk-away.html

OLPC BYOT poverty children students opinion NewScientist

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 18 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • A pre-pilot will start on 1 January 2012. Pre-pilot means that it will be small and there will be modest human intervention just to see children's reactions in order to better design the real, hands-off, dropping-out-of-the-sky format.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 18 Dec 11
     
    Can tablet computers "parachuted" into remote areas transform childhood learning, asks Nicholas Negroponte .. One Laptop per Child (OLPC), even after giving out nearly 3 million laptops, is still criticised along the following lines: "Negroponte believes that you can give a child a laptop and walk away." Whether I ever believed that or not is now secondary. It became such a refrain that I finally asked myself about a year ago: "What if you could?"
Martin Burrett

Race Against Global Poverty - 69 views

raceagainstglobalpoverty.direct.gov.uk

poverty global PSHE citizenship

shared by Martin Burrett on 09 Dec 11 - Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 09 Dec 11
     
    Well made games highlighting the work done by the UK Department for International development to elevate poverty. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental
Roland Gesthuizen

The Innovative Educator: Ideas for Bringing Your Own Device (BYOD) Even If You Are Poor - 107 views

theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/...ging-your-own-device-even.html

byod mlearning technology poverty equity

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 02 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • When we shift our thinking from demanding the government provides one-size-fits-some solutions and move it to let's empower families to take ownership of securing tools for their learning, change can happen.  
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 02 Dec 11
     
    When the topic of bring your own device comes up, one of the first complaints we often hear, is "What about the have nots." Yes, there are have nots.  However, students should not only be given the freedom to do what those who have the least can do. Students are not prisoners and they are not widgets. They are people with minds, choices, and parents or guardians who can make decisions and should be empowered to use the learning devices they choose. 
Steve Ransom

Extraordinary teachers can't overcome poor classroom situations - latimes.com - 7 views

www.latimes.com/...-size-20110731,0,3910343.story

urbaneducation teacher classroom poverty evaluation teachereffectiveness classsize teaching

shared by Steve Ransom on 31 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Still, it's become a popular fantasy that all you need is a superstar teacher, and that he or she will be just as effective even as budget cuts force us to pack more kids into each classroom.
  • we can't demand that teachers be excellent in conditions that preclude excellence.
Martin Burrett

FreePoverty - 2 views

www.freepoverty.com

geography games citizenship map maps charity

shared by Martin Burrett on 23 Jun 11 - Cached
  • Melanie Weser on 23 Jun 11
     
    Great review for geography
  • Martin Burrett on 24 Nov 11
     
    Learn about the geography of the world and help some people around the world at the same time with this great map game. For each answer the site's sponsors will donate money to provide money for clean water projects in some of the poorest countries. The more accurate the answer, the more money is given. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental
1 - 20 of 22 Next ›
Showing 20▼ items per page