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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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