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Poverty is an educational issue because it affects children's physical, emotional, and cognitive development. Especially in current times, taken-for-granted ideas about poverty and poor children must be scrutinized and reconsidered. That is the goal of this book. Poverty and Schooling in the U.S.: Contexts and Consequences is in part a plea for educators and future educators to undertake the intellectual and emotional work of learning more about the social causes, as well as the sometimes life-altering consequences of poverty. Although such efforts will not eradicate poverty, they can help form more insightful educators, administrators, policymakers, and researchers. The book is also an effort to bring to the table a larger conversation about the educational significance of the social and legal policy contexts of poverty and about typical school experiences of poor children. Poverty and Schooling in the U.S.: Contexts and Consequences: describes what teachers need to know or to understand about the contexts and consequences of poverty; provides information and analysis of the social context of poverty; examines the experience of many children and families living in poverty; documen

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""This is a timely book as the economic gap between rich and poor continues to widen. Recommended."" —CHOICE ""Poverty and Schooling in the U.S. provides pre-service teachers, teachers, and teacher educators with foundational information needed to address the educational needs of children living in poverty, as it presents many perspectives that place poverty within a framework that helps educators move from explanations of poverty as a deficit in character and/or desire on the part of adults, to a clearer and more holistic understanding of its complexity."" —Sandra Winn Tutwiler Washburn University

"""This is a timely book as the economic gap between rich and poor continues to widen. Recommended."" —CHOICE ""Poverty and Schooling in the U.S. provides pre-service teachers, teachers, and teacher educators with foundational information needed to address the educational needs of children living in poverty, as it presents many perspectives that place poverty within a framework that helps educators move from explanations of poverty as a deficit in character and/or desire on the part of adults, to a clearer and more holistic understanding of its complexity."" —Sandra Winn Tutwiler Washburn University"

This is a timely book as the economic gap between rich and poor continues to widen. Recommended. -CHOICE Poverty and Schooling in the U.S. provides pre-service teachers, teachers, and teacher educators with foundational information needed to address the educational needs of children living in poverty, as it presents many perspectives that place poverty within a framework that helps educators move from explanations of poverty as a deficit in character and/or desire on the part of adults, to a clearer and more holistic understanding of its complexity. -Sandra Winn Tutwiler Washburn University

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