...Education reform has a major impact on teaching children of poverty. For decades, education reform has been a leading topic on the national political agenda. It is an epidemic issue which has led to various legislations to include: the Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965 (ESEA), No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) and the most recent, Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Few Americans realize that the U.S. educational system is one of the most unequal in the industrial world, and students routinely receive dramatically different learning opportunities based in their social status (Jensen, 2010). If policymakers continue to ignore the correlation between poverty and education reform, many students will be left behind and unable to succeed in the...
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...The major themes the I found after reading this book were on the different kinds of poverty and the lack of resources. For instance, (Payne, 1998) mentioned financial, emotional, mental, spiritual, physical, support systems, relationships/role models, and knowledge of hidden rules. For the most part when I think about poverty, I usually think about economic hardships and emotional difficulties. After reading this book it broadened my perspective on how to look at poverty. It’s not the first time that I hear about mental, and spiritual rules. However, I never imagined that knowledge of hidden rules was such a great contributor to poverty and education. I did not know about the hidden rules that exist behind poverty and the educational system. Payne (1998) mentions “There are street rules and there are school rules. Each set of rules helps you be successful where you are. So at school, laughing when being disciplined is not a choice. It doesn’t help you be successful. It only buys you more trouble. Keep a straight face and look sorry,...
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...abject children disregarded by education.” It is ago. Now, we are haunted again. This has been proven for centuries; the key to address this horrible fact lies in our hands. According to a report by the World Poverty Statistics in 2012, 1 billion out 2.2 billion children worldwide is living in poverty. 22,000 children die each day because of hunger. An estimated 870 million people worldwide do not have enough food to eat and 80 percent of the world population lives on less than 400 pesos a day. Because of this awful reality, the United Nations have listed them on the top priority and concerns of the world. Education for All (EPA) is seen to address this problem. As cited in the Millennium Development Goals which is to open the doors and expand the opportunities for education to all mankind. There are a lot of solutions for poverty but I believe that the main key is education. As we all know, education enriches the traits and identity of one individual, as well as his or her intellectual capabilities. It provides knowledge and enables any man and woman to put his or her potentials to optimal use. As a result, it raises a person from deep scarcity to finest job opportunity. However, do all populace have the right to education? Education is a fundamental human right. Every individual, irrespective of race, gender, nationality, ethnic or social origin, religion or political preference, age or disability, is entitled to a free elementary education. This right is explicitly stated...
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...much can schools do to eradicate poverty? This question undergirds the important articles in this special edition of Teachers College Record. Early beliefs—from the mid-19th century to perhaps the late 1970s—were strong that education could change the world and would constitute the “great equalizer,” in Horace Mann’s words. This belief in education’s power motivated my own entry into teaching in the mid-1960s: Caring teachers would change the world for the minority poor, one student at a time. Over the decades, this belief has faded as poverty has grown despite the spread of education and a more highly educated population. What has persisted, however, is the deficit thinking that informed the early compensatory education programs that the articles in this issue describe. Such beliefs are more subtle, and expressed obliquely, but they still inform education policy aimed at the urban poor—from local zero-tolerance discipline and metal detectors on school doors (which assume all students are thugs) to the high-stakes standardized testing mandated by No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top (which assume that test prep is enough of a curriculum for the urban poor). In addition, as Beatty remarks in her introductory piece, the focus of much reform today on instilling middle-class social capital in working-class and poor students smacks of deficit thinking: “Discourse similar to that of compensatory education in the 1960s has returned. Talk about...
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...HEA 207 10/05/2014 Presenting on (Health, education, poverty and Economy) Article: (Ebola: Economic Impact Already Serious; Could Be “Catastrophic” Without Swift Response) According to the World Bank if the Ebola virus continues to escalate in these affected countries such as Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone; its economic impact could grow eight fold dealing a potentially catastrophic blow to the already fragile states. The Analysis concluded that the economic cost can be limited if the national and international respond quickly in containing the Ebola epidemic. The analysis estimates the short-term impact on output to be 2.1 percentage points of GDP in Guinea (reducing growth from 4.5 percent to 2.4 percent); 3.4 percentage points in Liberia (reducing growth from 5.9 percent to 2.5 percent); and 3.3 percentage points in Sierra Leone (reducing growth from 11.3 percent to 8 percent). This forgone output corresponds to $359 million in 2014 prices. However, if Ebola is not contained, these estimates rise to $809 million in the three countries alone. In Liberia, the hardest hit country, the High Ebola scenario sees output hit 11.7 percentage points in 2015 (reducing growth from 6.8 percent to -4.9 percent). The food prices are now rising due to response of shortages, panic buying, and speculation; which cause a dramatic impact on the economy. To help stop the spread of Ebola The World Bank Group has put together $230 million financing package for the three countries hardest...
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...Does poverty have an effect on the education of students? Every student should have the same chance at success. In a perfect world each institution would administer the same quality education despite poverty, difference in resources, or diverse cultures. Although that is a good aspiration, it is a notion that is far from reality. Poverty plays a vital part in the resources available to each school. Resources account for majority of school’s operation. In order to ensure how much poverty affects schools, two schools will be evaluated; one school is located in a community under the poverty line and the other school is above the poverty line. The academic standards, standardized test scores, and resources available to each school will be the basis of the comparison. The schools are Ashley Magnet Elementary School (AMES) whose students are majority African-American and Hispanic and Lewisville Elementary School (LES) whose students are majority Caucasian. At the conclusion of this research, there will be valuable evidence to determine if poverty has an effect on the education of the students due to resources, standardized tests, living conditions, and health and nutrition. There are many different factors that a school must think about that determine what kind of resources could be purchased. A school must consider the salaries of the educators on their payroll, the district total revenue, the district total spending, the district revenue per student, and the district spending...
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...ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING AND EDUCATION AS STRATEGIC TOOLS FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN NIGERIA Dr. O. J. K. Ogundele Department of Business Administration & Management Technology Lagos State University, Ojo; Lagos Nigeria. Waidi Adeniyi Akingbade Department of Business Administration & Management Technology Lagos State University Ojo; Lagos, Nigeria. Hammed Babatunde Akinlabi Associate Lecturer Lagos State University External System Ojo, Lagos, Nigeria. Abstract The main objective of the study is to investigate the intensity of entrepreneurship training and education as strategic tools for poverty alleviation in Nigeria. Using a stratified random sampling technique, 250 entrepreneurs and apprenticeships from five recognized local government areas in Lagos state, South Western Nigeria were selected as our respondents. Data were gathered through a self-monitored questionnaire survey. Simple regression analysis was used to test the relationship between the entrepreneurship training and education and poverty alleviation. Two hypotheses were postulated to determine the relationship between technical skill and youth empowerment and between personal entrepreneurial skill and social welfare services. This study confirmed that entrepreneurship training and education are significantly related to the youth empowerment and social welfare services. Findings revealed that youth empowerment are influenced by their acquired technical skill. The study recommends effective technical education, youth empowerment...
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...Katrina Nicholes-Shults Mrs. Livingston English 1102/S.E.1.3 February 6, 2014 Toni Cade Bambara’s The Lesson: The Impact of Poverty on Education Toni Cade Bambara’s short story The Lesson told in first person by a character named Sylvia. Sylvia is a poor student who resides in the ghetto of New York with her friends and family. The story begins in the summertime in New York, where the children are out of school, playing and having fun; but when a new neighbor Miss Moore move in, things change. Miss Moore is an educated African American woman, who embarks on an educational journey with the children. She realizes that the children lack experience and knowledge of a world outside of poverty, so she takes them on a trip outside their element. According to Marchino’s critical analysis, the goal is that they “realize wealth is unfairly and unequally distributed (2)”. In doing so, Miss Moore have the children figuring cab fare, tips, prices of toys, evaluating unnecessary spending, and diversity. Sylvia recalls her youth by stating “‘back in the days when everyone was old and stupid or young and foolish and me and Sugar were the only ones just right’” (Bambara 385). According to Sylvia, community elders did not know anything, but that she had all the answers. She appears to be an intelligent, smart mouth and disrespectful youth because of her tone throughout the story. Her foul language throughout the story appears distasteful and unwarranted. However, to someone who understands...
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...Poverty is a global phenomenon affecting every country. According the United Nations, poverty is the inability to seek basic needs such as food, clothing and shelter based on the incapability of not having enough money. However, it is not all about the inability to seek basic needs but beyond that. “It is about the denial of opportunities and choices that are widely regarded as essential to lead a long, healthy, creative life and to enjoy a decent standard of living, freedom, dignity, self-esteem and the respect of others” (United Nations- Global Teaching and Learning Project, 2014, 1). Poverty makes other major problems worse including slave labour, human trafficking and the spread of diseases. However, the root cause of these global issues is the relationship between poverty and the lack of education. The big question is whether increased education will reduce poverty or, is a lack of education a result of poverty? Increased education can lead to the reduction of poverty by providing people with learning skills to get a job and provide a source of income. Education has the most crucial role in eliminating poverty as with education there are many more opportunities. For the eradication of poverty, primary education is essential because with the increase in education, people will not lack cognitive skills- being able to progress better. (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2001; Brown, J., Pollitt, E. Malnutrition, 1996). A counter argument is...
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...Reasons Single Mothers Live in Poverty Tonya Norwood COM/150 February 16, 2014 Shyree Latham Reasons Single Mothers Live in Poverty According to Jennifer Wolf (2014), custodial single mothers are twice as likely to live in poverty as the general population. In 2009, 14 percent of the United States general population lived in poverty. 30 percent of custodial single mothers and their children lived in poverty. Moreover, thirteen million kids live in poverty in the U.S. The children living in poverty are affected in many different ways psychologically, socially, and physically. The federal poverty guideline for a family of four is $23,050.00 and that guideline compares to a median U.S. household income of $50,054.00 (Breslow, 2012). Many of these single mothers living in low income have low education. Nationally, over 80 percent of families headed by a parent without a high school diploma lives in poverty, compared to 54 percent of families headed by a parent a high school diploma, and only 22 percent of families headed by a parent with at least some college education. Single mothers live in poverty because they lack higher education and are products of poverty themselves. Lack of Education Thirty years ago less than twenty percent of birth occurred to single women. Today that number has doubled. At one time race was a huge factor, however. Today, education is a key factor. In 1990, ten percent of birth occurred to white single mothers with...
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...Poverty is not the problem of one region or of one country; it is the problem facing to all the countries little or more. But in many countries it is severe. “Poverty is not an accident. Like a slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings”. Nelson Mandela Many people and many organizations took a leading role for reducing poverty all over the world or in specific region. First of all, we should know the reasons of poverty before lessening it. Poverty is increasing day by day due to reasons as mentioned below: Inequality, Lack of Democracy, Food Crises, Child Labour, No Access to Health Services, Illiteracy, Inadequat Shelter, War, Lack of Education, Privatization of Water, Poor Crop Yield,...
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...Eradication of Poverty and Extreme Hunger Not everyone is born into a rich family. Those lucky enough to have been born into one have a responsibility to help those not so blessed. The United Nations' job is just that. They are an international agency whose aim is to eliminate poverty, illiteracy, and disease, stop environmental destruction, and encourage democratic rights and freedoms. Poverty and extreme hunger are something that are affecting most country in the world; no matter how big or small, rich or poor. This issue causes the most pain today, and is also the biggest threat to a person's future. Eradicating poverty and extreme hunger are the top priority of the United Nations in the 21st century because it will reduce the amount of malnutrition in people and improve their education. One of the reasons why poverty and extreme hunger must be eradicated is because without it there would be a dramatic drop in the number of malnourished people around the world. Poverty and hunger can affect young and old and is the biggest contributor to malnutrition. This can be seen in the Central American country of Guatemala. The Guatemala Poverty Assessment states that, "There is a strong correlation between poverty and malnutrition, as four fifths of malnourished children are poor" (Guatemala Poverty). In politics, a 66% super majority is rarely required when deciding on an issue because of the difficulty in achieving it. Therefore, when a supermajority is achieved, it can always...
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...If we diminish poverty, then we will receive less delinquency. Poverty and crime has been major issues in our society over the past few years. Do you think these two issues correlate to each other? I think society today does see poverty as a factor in crime rates and the correlation between each is valid. The cause and effect theory is: because of poverty, crime rates are high. If this is true, one way to solve crime is to solve poverty. The sociological perspective on this topic involves looking at the bigger picture. The structural functionalism for poverty is lack of education, unemployed, preferring to “live for the moment”, and resigning themselves to a culture of poverty (which nothing can be done to change their economic outcomes). We can solve poverty by; (1) understanding the factors that play into poverty and crimes, (2) advancing our education levels, and (3) lowering our unemployment rates. With these three solutions we can diminish poverty and receive less delinquency. (Macionis, 2010, p.59). According to census, in 2014 there were more than 45 million Americans living below the poverty line. A family of three making less than $19,790 year is considered living below the poverty level. $19,790 averages out to about 10$ per hour. (Gongoff, 2014, para. 2). A single mom working at minimum wages with two kids lives in poverty. A third of all poverty households are single mothers. Single mothers are more likely to become a victim of a crime. I found...
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...Amanda Germain Mrs. Leeker ENG111 2/25/14 Poverty and Homelessness: An Annotated Bibliography. “Black Parents Demand ‘World-Class’ Education, Too.” Washington Informer. 20. Mar 2013. ProQuest. Web. 15 Feb. 2014. In the article ‘World-Class Education’, it said that education need to be affordable for the community of African American. Some African American children are dropout which had damaged the community. Without education, the middle class people would not be able to sustain their family which can lead to society loss. Parents need to back their children education and to avoid them from dropping out of school. The source wants the middle-class to educate themselves so that they could have greater life for themselves and their family. It pressure parents and children to get educated. I would use this article for my research paper because it explain how lack of education lead to poverty and homelessness. It also discussed the importance of education in the African American community and how it can prevent poverty and homelessness. This source is credible because it demanded quality education for the middle class and African American. The author had written many articles about education in the middle-class communities. Many of these articles could be find in the education database at the Nova library. Doak J. Melissa. Ed. “Money, Income, and Poverty Status.’ Minorities: Race and Ethnicity in America. 2012. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Information...
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...Poverty can be described and explained many different ways. When one looks up the defintion of the word poverty they will find, “ a general scarcity or dearth, or the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money.” So, in other words a lack of money and materials that are needed for everyday life. Vivienne Adair, “Reclaiming the Promise of Higher Education: Poor Single Mothers in Academe,” mentions what she felt while living in poverty, “Homelessness, hunger, lack of medical and dental care, fear, and despair.” She talks about how poverty is not just not having money but rather a life of hurt, fear, and not knowing where your next meal is coming from. She goes on to explain how higher education was what was able...
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