sammohunger: Ravitch and Hake Emphasize Effects of Poverty on Education ...

Posted on 05 October 2012 by Robert A. Ferrell

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Diane Ravitch in her hard hitting ?Diane Ravitch?s blog?

<http://dianeravitch.net/> wrote in an entry ?The Word Not Mentioned in the Debate: Poverty? athttp://bit.ly/RfuGY4:

?Poverty. Lots of talk about the middle class. Tax cuts for the middle class. Saving the middle class. Doing more for the middle class. Not one word about poverty. No mention that nearly 25% of the children in the world?s richest nation live in poverty. Not one word.?

The overriding influence of poverty on educational achievement has been noted in, e.g. (alphabetical order by author):

1. ?Our Impoverished View of Educational Reform? [Berliner (2005)], at <http://bit.ly/ff8BVj>;

2. ?Poverty and Potential: Out-of-School Factors and School Success?

[Berliner (2009)], at <http://bit.ly/fqiCUA>;

3. ?Whither Opportunity? Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children?s Life Chances?

[Duncan & Murnane (2011a)] at <http://bit.ly/nCkmKv>;

4. ?Economic inequality: The real cause of the urban school problem,?

[Duncan & Murnane (2011b)] at <http://bit.ly/rv3rMO>.

5. ?To Improve Schools, Fight Poverty, Education Expert Says? [Gosier (2011)], online at <http://bit.ly/qyrBSL> ? the expert is Stephen Krashen <http://bit.ly/Ui9xm1>;

6. ?Re: Economic Inequality: The Real Cause of Urban School Problems #2? [Hake (2011a)] at <http://bit.ly/ozuZEn>;

7.? ?Is the ?Teacher Effect? the Dominant Factor in Students?

Academic Gain?? [Hake (2011b)], online at <http://bit.ly/g6UWUZ>

8. ?Is the ?Teacher Effect? the Dominant Factor in Students? Academic Gain? #3? [Hake (2011c)], online at? <http://bit.ly/jy61UB>;

9. ?Class Matters. Why Won?t We Admit It?? [Ladd & Fiske (2011)] at <http://nyti.ms/vx3nub>;

10. ?Education and Poverty: Visualizations of World, US, and State-level Educational Data? [Marder (2011)] at <http://bit.ly/nYC6eF>;

11. ?Failure of U.S. Public Secondary Schools in Mathematics? [Marder (2012)] at <http://bit.ly/KPitWM>;

12. ?The hard bigotry of low expectations and low priorities? [Ravani (2011b)] at <http://bit.ly/sUZ17T>;

13. ?Unaddressed Link Between Poverty & Education? [Schaffer (2011)] at <http://bit.ly/tbckql>.

Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University

Links to Articles: <http://bit.ly/a6M5y0>

Links to Socratic Dialogue Inducing (SDI) Labs: <http://bit.ly/9nGd3M>

?Data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress show that

more than 40 percent of the variation in average reading scores and

46 percent of the variation in average math scores across states is

associated with variation in child poverty rates?

- Ladd & Fiske (2011)

REFERENCES [All URL's shortened by <http://bit.ly/> and accessed on

04 Oct 2012.]

Berliner, D.C. 2005. ?Our Impoverished View of Educational Reform,?

Teachers College Record, August 02, online as an 872 kB pdf at

<http://bit.ly/ff8BVj>. Berliner argues that: ?poverty places severe

limits on what can be accomplished through school reform efforts,

particularly those associated with the federal No Child Left Behind

law. The data presented in this study suggest that the most powerful

policy for improving our nations? school achievement is a reduction

in family and youth poverty.?

Berliner, D.C. 2009. ?Poverty and Potential: Out-of-School Factors

and School Success.? Education and Public Interest Center (Univ. of

Colorado) and Education Policy Research Unit, (Arizona State

University); online as a 729 kB pdf at <http://bit.ly/fqiCUA>.

Duncan, G.J. & R. Murnane, eds. 2011a. ?Whither Opportunity? Rising

Inequality, Schools, and Children?s Life Chances.? Russell Sage

Foundation, publisher?s information at <http://bit.ly/nCkmKv>.

Amazon.com information at <http://amzn.to/r3MrCh>.

Duncan, G.J. & R. Murnane. 2011b. ?Economic inequality: The real

cause of the urban school problem,? Chicago Tribune, 06 October;

online at <http://bit.ly/rv3rMO>.

Gosier, C. 2011. ?To Improve Schools, Fight Poverty, Education Expert

Says,? Fordham University Press Release, July, online at

<http://bit.ly/qyrBSL>.

Hake, R.R. 2011a. ?Re: Economic Inequality: The Real Cause of Urban

School Problems #2,? online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at

<http://bit.ly/ozuZEn>. Post of 11 Oct 2011 19:59:34-0700 to AERA-L

and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post were

transmitted to various discussion lists and are also on my blog

?Hake?sEdStuff? at <http://bit.ly/nOFgXx>.

Hake, R.R. 2011b. ?Is the ?Teacher Effect? the Dominant Factor in

Students? Academic Gain?? online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at

<http://bit.ly/g6UWUZ>. Post of 7 Apr 2011 17:51:59-0700 to AERA-L

and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are being

transmitted to various discussion lists and are also on my blog

?Hake?sEdStuff? at <http://bit.ly/ifvkSz>.

Hake, R.R. 2011c. ?Is the ?Teacher Effect? the Dominant Factor in

Students? Academic Gain?? #3? online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at

<http://bit.ly/jy61UB>. Post of 3 May 2011 13:02:37-0700. The

abstract and link to the complete post were being transmitted to

various discussion lists and are also on my blog ?Hake?sEdStuff? at

<http://bit.ly/k1HsRH>.

Ladd, H.F. & E.B. Fiske. 2011. ?Class Matters. Why Won?t We Admit

It?? New York Times Opinion Piece, online? at <http://nyti.ms/vx3nub>.

Marder, M. 2011. ?Education and Poverty: Visualizations of World, US,

and State-level Educational Data,? Prezi presentation, online at

<http://bit.ly/nYC6eF>.

Marder, M. 2012. ?Failure of U.S. Public Secondary Schools in

Mathematics,? Journal of Scholarship and Practice 9(1): 8-25; the

entire issue is online as a 2.7 MB kB pdf at <http://bit.ly/KPitWM>,

scroll down to page 8.

Schaeffer, B. 2011. ?Economic Inequality: The Real Cause of Urban

School Problems,? online on the OPEN! ARN-L archives at

<http://bit.ly/oJh0cJ>.

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