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The Poverty and Education Reader - A Call for Equity in Many Voices (Hardcover, New)
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The Poverty and Education Reader - A Call for Equity in Many Voices (Hardcover, New)
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Through a rich mix of essays, memoirs, and poetry, the contributors
to "The Poverty and Education Reader" bring to the fore the
schooling experiences of poor and working class students,
highlighting the resiliency, creativity, and educational
aspirations of low-income families. They showcase proven strategies
that imaginative teachers and schools have adopted for closing the
"opportunity gap," demonstrating how they have succeeded by working
in partnership with low-income families, and despite growing class
sizes, the imposition of rote pedagogical models, and
teach-to-the-test mandates. The contributors teachers, students,
parents, educational activists, and scholars repudiate the
prevalent, but too rarely discussed, deficit views of students and
families in poverty. Rather than focusing on how to fix poor and
working class youth, they challenge us to acknowledge the ways
these youth and their families are disenfranchised by educational
policies and practices that deny them the opportunities enjoyed by
their wealthier peers. Just as importantly, they offer effective
school and classroom strategies to mitigate the effects of
educational inequality on students in poverty. Rejecting the
simplistic notion that a single program, policy, or pedagogy can
undo social or educational inequalities, this "Reader" inspires and
equips educators to challenge the disparities to which underserved
communities are subjected. It is a positive resource for students
of education and for teachers, principals, social workers,
community organizers, and policy makers who want to make the
promise of educational equality a reality."
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