1. A boost in short term federal funding can lead to a drastic reduction in educational staff as states are allowed to reinvested freed up dollars elsewhere in the state budget.
2. One in six children in America live in poverty and often lack access to some very basic services that prevent a greater societal costs in the future.
3. The vision of the school as the hub of the community should be the direction that we're moving in this global economy. We are too socially divorced from education and too invested in commercial consumption. Education creates more producers and consumers that just consumers.
4. School's that serve a large volume of economically disadvantaged families do not retain teachers and the teachers they do retain are typically paid less than their more colleagues in more affluent communities.
5. Economic factors can easily influence something as simple as a student's command of vocabulary. There are few areas in education that are not negatively influenced by poverty.
IF YOU CAN ONLY VIEW ONE VIDEO watch the second link: Child Poverty in America - Marian Wright Edelman.
1.
Dr. Eric Cooper and Dr. Dan Domenech address issues of poverty and racial inequality in the school system. Dan proposes that the huge bump in federal investment of 100 billion prompted by the recent stimulus plan resulted in states cutting back funding and ultimately removing 275,000 public school positions. America has 3.7 million people trained in education. Poverty affects teachers, hiring practices, student success and families. SCORE: 5/5
2.
This video takes a storytelling approach to drive home a very real point and then lays out plenty of info about the cost of neglect in our education system. One in six children in America face significant barriers to a successful education in the form of poverty. Our national failure to educate everyone costs an estimated 500 billion dollars a year in lost productivity. SCORE: 5/5.
3.
Skip to minute 4:18 for the discussion on how poverty is affecting education.
Arne Duncan, the current U.S. Secretary of Education talks about federal goals for education. Some issues are addressed, such as “cradle to career” student placement. His thoughts are soundbytes for the most part but he does really address the grave economic danger of neglecting education funding and reform which I feel is beyond urgent at this point in time. Also his thought that education needs to be the center of our communities is exactly right on. If we want to stay relevant in the coming century we need massive social reform. SCORE: 4/5
4.
This is a silent video and you will have to pause constantly to really read all the information. However, the video deals with a school stricken with a high rate of poverty and drastically improved its reading scores. SCORE: 3/5.
5.Reducing Student Poverty in the Classroom
Discussing methods to reduce barriers to entry for eligible families and children in need with the aim to reduce the the impact of poverty on education. Making schools become a beacon of resources rather than a holding pen for children in need. It is perfectly fine for education to be about learning about available resources if those resources can lead to a more productive learning and ultimately economic environment. SCORE: 5/5
6. Why Do High-Poverty Schools Have Difficulty Staffing Their Classrooms with Qualified Teachers?
It all comes down to the teachers, so why do poverty stricken schools have difficulty hiring the right educators? Many signs indicate that a diminished teacher salary (when compared to their peers teaching in affluent areas) certainly doesn't help retention. There is also a huge stratification of the best teachers teaching in the better performing schools, ensuring a non-equitable distribution of educators. SCORE 5/5.
7. Poverty and potential: Out-of-School Factors and School Success
A rather deep look at how our American society perceives educational success while often ignoring OoSF (Out of School Factors), such as poverty and health concerns. SCORE 4/5, due to a rather daunting length of some rather dense data making it somewhat inaccessible.
8.
A more physiological look at how stress affects learning. Poverty causes stress induced by cortisol release that is persistent because most poverty is chronic in nature. This is a very good point, however, this video really stops when it should be just getting started. We often pretend that a disability doesn't exist in American society as long as we don't acknowledge it, but that is hardly the case. As someone who suffers from anxiety this video touched home for me and it is part of the reason I included it. SCORE 3/5.
Five Things I Learned:
1. A boost in short term federal funding can lead to a drastic reduction in educational staff as states are allowed to reinvested freed up dollars elsewhere in the state budget.
2. One in six children in America live in poverty and often lack access to some very basic services that prevent a greater societal costs in the future.
3. The vision of the school as the hub of the community should be the direction that we're moving in this global economy. We are too socially divorced from education and too invested in commercial consumption. Education creates more producers and consumers that just consumers.
4. School's that serve a large volume of economically disadvantaged families do not retain teachers and the teachers they do retain are typically paid less than their more colleagues in more affluent communities.
5. Economic factors can easily influence something as simple as a student's command of vocabulary. There are few areas in education that are not negatively influenced by poverty.
IF YOU CAN ONLY VIEW ONE VIDEO watch the second link: Child Poverty in America - Marian Wright Edelman.
1.
Dr. Eric Cooper and Dr. Dan Domenech address issues of poverty and racial inequality in the school system. Dan proposes that the huge bump in federal investment of 100 billion prompted by the recent stimulus plan resulted in states cutting back funding and ultimately removing 275,000 public school positions. America has 3.7 million people trained in education. Poverty affects teachers, hiring practices, student success and families. SCORE: 5/5
2.
This video takes a storytelling approach to drive home a very real point and then lays out plenty of info about the cost of neglect in our education system. One in six children in America face significant barriers to a successful education in the form of poverty. Our national failure to educate everyone costs an estimated 500 billion dollars a year in lost productivity. SCORE: 5/5.
3.
Skip to minute 4:18 for the discussion on how poverty is affecting education.
Arne Duncan, the current U.S. Secretary of Education talks about federal goals for education. Some issues are addressed, such as “cradle to career” student placement. His thoughts are soundbytes for the most part but he does really address the grave economic danger of neglecting education funding and reform which I feel is beyond urgent at this point in time. Also his thought that education needs to be the center of our communities is exactly right on. If we want to stay relevant in the coming century we need massive social reform. SCORE: 4/5
4.
This is a silent video and you will have to pause constantly to really read all the information. However, the video deals with a school stricken with a high rate of poverty and drastically improved its reading scores. SCORE: 3/5.
5.Reducing Student Poverty in the Classroom
Discussing methods to reduce barriers to entry for eligible families and children in need with the aim to reduce the the impact of poverty on education. Making schools become a beacon of resources rather than a holding pen for children in need. It is perfectly fine for education to be about learning about available resources if those resources can lead to a more productive learning and ultimately economic environment. SCORE: 5/5
6. Why Do High-Poverty Schools Have Difficulty Staffing Their Classrooms with Qualified Teachers?
It all comes down to the teachers, so why do poverty stricken schools have difficulty hiring the right educators? Many signs indicate that a diminished teacher salary (when compared to their peers teaching in affluent areas) certainly doesn't help retention. There is also a huge stratification of the best teachers teaching in the better performing schools, ensuring a non-equitable distribution of educators. SCORE 5/5.
7. Poverty and potential: Out-of-School Factors and School Success
A rather deep look at how our American society perceives educational success while often ignoring OoSF (Out of School Factors), such as poverty and health concerns. SCORE 4/5, due to a rather daunting length of some rather dense data making it somewhat inaccessible.
8.
A more physiological look at how stress affects learning. Poverty causes stress induced by cortisol release that is persistent because most poverty is chronic in nature. This is a very good point, however, this video really stops when it should be just getting started. We often pretend that a disability doesn't exist in American society as long as we don't acknowledge it, but that is hardly the case. As someone who suffers from anxiety this video touched home for me and it is part of the reason I included it. SCORE 3/5.