Category: poverty
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Equity in Education: Overcoming Barriers of Poverty for Student Success
The multitude of barriers, created by poverty, to achieving an rigorous education must be overcome in order to have equity in schools. Many years ago, I was principal of a very large elementary school in a midwestern city. It was the only non-housing structure in the neighborhood. There were no other services in that neighborhood:…
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Stop Marginalizing Students Living in Poverty
Stop Marginalizing Students Who Live in Poverty Many of our students who do not graduate high school college and/or career ready are our marginalized students. Our educational systems often marginalize these students, inadvertently, when they: These are some of the ways that our educational system often marginalize students and fail to ensure that all students…