The Poverty Problem

How Education Can Promote Resilience and Counter Poverty?s Impact on Brain Development and Functioning

Horacio Sanchez

• Publisher: Corwin
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781071842928
• eBook ISBN:
  9781071842942
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Improve outcomes for students in poverty by understanding their developing brains Economic hardship is changing our students' brain structures at a genetic level, producing psychological, behavioral, and cognitive issues that dramatically impact learning, behavior, physical health, and emotional stability. But there is hope. This groundbreaking book by one of the nation's top experts in brain science and resilience offers solutions that will change minds, attitudes, and behaviors. Learn about how problems develop between people of different races, how the brain develops in persistent poverty, and how it might react to solutions. Inside, you will find real-life applications on topics including: • The lack of culturally competent instruction and its impact on students of color
• Poverty?s effect on language development and how it can be positively influenced
• The importance of reading
• How to counteract the effects of the widespread stress in lower SES environments Children make up 23% of the U.S. population and account for almost 33% of those living in poverty, making the education system our most distressed institution. In The Poverty Problem, you'll learn how to increase students' perseverance and confidence and positively impact outcomes by arming yourself with research-based instructional strategies that are inspiring, realistic, and proven to work.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Acknowledgements
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Summary
• About the Author
• Introduction The Invisible Line
• Chapter 1 The New Deal—The Old Way
• Chapter 2 More Than a Lapse in Judgment
• Chapter 3 Born Behind the Eight Ball
• Chapter 4 Speechless
• Chapter 5 You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling
• Chapter 6 See No Evil, Hear No Evil, and Speak No Evil
• Chapter 7 Poverty Is a Story of Risk
• Chapter 8 Principles of Good Instruction for Students from Low SES
• Chapter 9 The Only Academic Protective Factor
• Chapter 10 Promoting Resiliency
• Appendix A Model Lesson: Goal Setting
• Appendix B Model Lesson: Promoting Hope and Expectation
• Appendix C Model Lesson: Having a Good Sense of Humor
• References
• Index
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