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Hi Madison Robertson, This is my presentation on how poverty affects education.
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Um How does poverty affect education And poverty plays a
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big role in student's education and ability to learn.
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Students living in poverty often
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don't have appropriate resources to study
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and complete homework at home including high speed internet laptops or even
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parents home from work to help them with their homework problems.
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Um Once it says Children from low income
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families often start school already behind their peers
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who come from more affluent families
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have shown in measurements of school readiness
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that
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incidents step duration and timing of poverty all influence a child's
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educational attainment along with community
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character exists and social networks.
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So um
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The US Census Bureau to find state poverty as living in a household
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with total cash and come out is below 50% of the poverty threshold.
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Um So the slide is going to focus on the deep poverty statistics within Children.
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Um No state is without Children living in deep poverty.
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All states have at least 5% of their Children living far below the poverty line.
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And more than five million Children in the United States live in deep poverty.
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Um Also race plays a part into it in certain aspects because one in five
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black Children under the age of five live in deep poverty On this image here.
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You can't really see it but it's really small but it actually shows the
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amount of poverty in each state
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um lack of resources and
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low income schools.
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Many students living in poverty don't have
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the resources at home to complete homework.
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This includes
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laptops, um, maybe even pens and paper.
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Most states fund schools based on the property taxes,
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which means that a lot of schools are
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underfunded in areas that um, people would be in poverty because they all
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obviously pay lope
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property taxes.
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Um, Teachers in low income districts are often less experienced,
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which also plays a role into how these Children in poverty receive their education.
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They receive a lesser education than their counterparts.
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Um, Also Children and education, I mean, Children in poverty often
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and
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aren't as ready for school.
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Being ready for school reflects a child's ability to be able
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to succeed both academically and socially in a school environment.
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Um,
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Children living in low income households often do not receive stimulation and
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they don't learn social skills required to prepare them for school.
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This could be because their parents are
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working overtime to provide for their family,
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so they're not home as often to interact with them and teach them these skills.
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Um,
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This is about the every student succeeds act.
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It was signed into law in 2015,
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replacing the no child left behind Act requires
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states to measure student performance in reading,
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math and science.
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Um they also have to provide a state
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report card and that's accessible online for everyone.
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Um,
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This helps parents make the best academic choices for
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their Children because they can see their test scores,
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um,
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and it extends flexibility for funds to
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be invested in education and even transportation
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for students who want to attend higher performing schools out of the district.
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Um There are some proposing viewpoints to this.
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Um A lot of people dismissed it because they thought it was too radical,
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especially like people in big school boards.
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Um
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they,
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the opposing groups perspective
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um has influences
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education policy,
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resulting in more high stakes testing for students and a no excuses mindset.
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Their whole thing is um poverty should not be an excuse, it's a setback for sure,
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but it should not be an excuse for um lazy teaching and lazy students.
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I won't go to the next one.
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Um outcomes of the S. S. A.
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There were gaps and achievements still
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between students and poverty and students who
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um Alright in poverty,
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um there was actually a declined in decline in
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the score on the National Assessment of Educational Progress,
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which shows that these students aren't learning the way they still should be.
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Um poverty still stands in the way of
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substantially improving student's academic performance and social skills,
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which are limited because again,
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these parents are probably often at work or you know,
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um this goes to show that when poor Children, Oh yeah,
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these statistics show that even when poor Children
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have the same opportunities like nutritious meals, reliable healthcare,
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reliable transportation, even after school activities,
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they actually perform just as well as they're better off
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friends who aren't in poverty.
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My personal perspective is that students living
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in poverty need to be provided with more
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resources to succeed academically and socially,
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this could be like free after school programs so
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that these students can be social with their classmates,
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especially because a lot of times their parents will still be at work um
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and they could also get homework help and access to the internet at school.
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Um I don't think that the es esa
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act is enough because obviously statistics showed that these
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students who are living in poverty still aren't up
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to the standards of the students who aren't.
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Um I think resources they should be preferred
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with should also be included meals at schools.
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Um And that would help them because if they are full,
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then they can obviously learn better.
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Um These are my references. Thank you for watching.