Poorest states. . .

We fail and fail and fail to acknowledge that demonizing schools and teachers is a convenient mask for acknowledging POVERTY. . .

Poorest states outlined @ Huffington Post

New work from Giroux at Truthout

Memories of Hope in the Age of Disposability

Berliner on the achievement gap

From The Washington Post:

New analysis of achievement gap: ½ x ½ = 1½

Ignroing poverty from the top. . .

See this excellent article at The Washington Post:

The elephant that Obama and Lauer ignored: Poverty and student achievement

Misinformation: Masking the problems caused by poverty

The season for bashing teachers and schools is also the season for masking the impact of poverty on the lives of children and their families. . .

The jewel in the crown of this bashing is the misinformation-documentary "Waiting for Superman."

See a well supported refuting of the doc HERE.

28 September 2010 Op-Ed in OpEdNews

The great charter compromise: Masking corporate commitments in educational reform

CLP sponsored by IAE and PVS at Furman Univeristy

21 September 2010 Op-Ed in OpEdNews

2020 Vision for No Child Left in Poverty

Poverty and education, international report

See Report: Poor Countries Face Education Crisis at EdWeek. . .

[I wish, as a side note, we could stop using "crisis" with every comment on education. . .]

Capitalism. . .

See "Poverty and Economic Crisis" at Truthout

The Angry Rich, Paul Krugman

Krugman puts the poverty debate in perspective:

The Angry Rich

Letter from Krashen

Blame students or blame poverty?
**Sent to The New York Times, Sept 13, 2010**

**Thomas Friedman ("We’re No. 1(1)!,"9/11) asserts that American
education has declined, our test scores are low, and that we must
therefore demand more of our students.**

This is all wrong. American students from well-funded schools who come
from high-income families outscore nearly all other countries on
international tests. Only our children in high-poverty schools score
below the international average. Our scores look low because the US
has the highest percentage of children in poverty of all
industrialized countries (25%, compared to Denmark's 3%). American
education has been successful; the problem is poverty.

The solution is not to blame students for being lazy (our elders said
this about us). The solution is to protect children from the damaging
effects of poverty: better nutrition (Susan Ohanian suggests the motto
"No Child Left Unfed"), excellent health care for all children, and
universal access to reading material.

Stephen Krashen

Friedman article at:

http://tinyurl.com/3ajk77c

Recommended: Walt Gardner's blog at EdWeek

Poverty Rate and the Achievement Gap

Recommended Blogs at EdWeek and Teacher Magazine

See Living in Dialogue from Anthony Cody. . .Start with this posting. . .

Also, see Rural Education

Equity?

Read this article from The New York Times: Racial Disparity in School Suspensions

And see the entire study HERE: Suspended Education.

The (Ironic) Value of Looking Closely at SAT scores

Nothing has changed, but we fail each time to listen. . .

See this excellent compilation of the real evidence from SAT scores (it's not what you think). . .

And from FairTest.org. . .

Krashen responds to unfair demonizing of children

Blame poverty, not children

Overall Poverty Continues to Rise

See the news about 1 in 7 poor in the US @ Huffingtonpost

10 September 2010 Op-Ed at OpEdNews

"The truth is always hard to swallow"—And other ironies

Social Inequality. . .

As I maintain often, our schools reflect and too often exacerbate the inequities found in our society. . .Read this series at Slate:

The United State of Inequality

See links to parts 2 and 3

"Evening with. . ." Mere Christianity Forum 8 September 2010

See an Op-Ed of mine about how we view childhood poverty:

Test scores aren't the most serious problem (Greenville News, 19 June 2010)

Consider the resources below:

Adamson, P., Brown, G., Micklewright, J., Schnepf, S., Waldmann, R., & Wright, A. (2002, November). A league table of educational disadvantage in rich nations. Innocenti Report Card (4). United Nations Children’s Fund Innocenti Research Centre. Florence, Italy. Retrieved 27 December 2007 from www.unicef-icdc.org

Adamson, P. (2006). Child poverty in rich countries 2005. Innocenti Report Card (6). United Nations Children's Fund Innocenti Research Centre. Florence, Italy

Adamson, P. (2007). Child poverty in perspective: An overview of child well-being in rich countries. Innocenti Report Card (7). United Nations Children's Fund Innocenti Research Centre. Florence, Italy.

Barton, P. E., & Coley, R. J. (2007, September). The family: America’s smallest school. Educational Testing Service. Policy Information Center. Princeton, NJ. Retrieved 27 December 2007, from http://www.ets.org/Media/Education_Topics/pdf/5678_PERCReport_School.pdf

Barton, P. E., & Coley, R. J. (2009). Parsing the achievement gap II. Educational Testing Service. Policy Information Center. Princeton, NJ. Retrieved 8 May 2009, from http://www.ets.org/Media/Research/pdf/PICPARSINGII.pdf

Barton, P. E., & Coley, R. J. (2010, July). The black-white achievement gap: When progress stopped. Educational Testing Service. Policy Information Center. Princeton, NJ. Retrieved 30 August 2010 from www.ets.org/Media/Research/pdf/PICBWGAP.pdf

Berliner, D. C. (2009). Poverty and potential: Out-of-school factors and school success. Boulder and Tempe: Education and the Public Interest Center & Education Policy Research Unit. Retrieved 25 August 2009 from http://epicpolicy.org/publication/poverty-and-potential

Bomer, R., Dworin, J. E., May, L., & Semingson, P. (2008). Miseducating teachers about the poor: A critical analysis of Ruby Payne's claims about poverty. Teachers College Record, 110(11).

Bomer, R., Dworin, J. E., May, L., & Semingson, P. (2009, June 3). What’s wrong with a deficit perspective? Teachers College Record. Retrieved 12 June 2009 from http://www.tcrecord.org

Cavanagh, S. (2007, December 7). Poverty’s effect on U.S. scores greater than for other nations. Education Week, 27(15), 1, 13.

Dudley-Marling, C. (2007). Return of the deficit. Journal of Educational Controversy, 2(1). Retrieved 29 June 2009 from http://www.wce.wwu.edu/Resources/CEP/eJournal/v002n001/a004.shtml

Dudley-Marling, C., & Lucas, K. (2009, May). Pathologizing the language and culture of poor children. Language Arts, 86(5), 362-370.

Dworin, J. E., & Bomer, R. (2008, January). What we all (supposedly) know about the poor: A critical discourse analysis of Ruby Payne’s “Framework.” English Education, 40(2), 101-121.

Ellison, R. (2003). What these children are like. In J. F. Callahan (Ed.), The collected essays of Ralph Ellison (pp. 546-555). New York: The Modern Library. Retrieved 27 December 2007 from http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=57

Freire, P. (1998). Pedagogy of freedom: Ethics, democracy, and civic courage. Trans. P. Clarke. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

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Gorski, P. (2006a, February 9). The Classist underpinnings of Ruby Payne’s Framework. Teachers College Record. Retrieved 24 June 2007 from http://www.tcrecord.org

———. (2006b, July 19). Responding to Payne’s Response. Teachers College Record. Retrieved 12 June 2009 from http://www.tcrecord.org

———. (2008, April). The myth of the “Culture of Poverty.” Educational Leadership, 65(7), 32-36.

Hirsch, D. (2007, September). Experiences of poverty and educational disadvantage. Joseph Rowntree Foundation. York, North Yorkshire, UK. Retrieved 27 December 2007 from http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/socialpolicy/2123.asp

Kincheloe, J. L., & Steinberg, S. R. (2007). Cutting class: Socioeconomic status and education. New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

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Ng, J. C., & Rury, J. L. (2006, July 18). Poverty and education: A critical analysis of the Ruby Payne phenomenon. Teachers College Record. Retrieved 24 June 2007 from http://www.tcrecord.org

Peske, H. G., & Haycock, K. (2006, June). Teaching inequality: How poor and minority students are shortchanged on teacher quality. Washington DC: The Education Trust, Inc. Retrieved 7 September 2009 from http://www2.edtrust.org/NR/rdonlyres/010DBD9F-CED8-4D2B-9E0D-91B446746ED3/0/TQReportJune2006.pdf

Sato, M., & Lensmire, T. J. (2009, January). Poverty and Payne: Supporting teachers to work with children of poverty. Phi Delta Kappan, 9(5), 365-370.

Thomas, P. L. (2009b). Shifting from deficit to generative practices: Addressing impoverished and all students. Teaching Children of Poverty, 1(1). Retrieved 13 September 2009 from http://journals.sfu.ca/tcop/index.php/tcop/article/view/8/1

Wenglinsky, H. (2007, October). Are private high schools better academically than public high schools? Retrieved 28 December 2008 from the Center for Education Policy Web site: http://www.cep-dc.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=document_ext.showDocumentByID&nodeID=1&DocumentID=226

Two important blog postings

See HERE for a detailed discussion of the problems with KIPP and "no excuses" schools.

And HERE for Krashen's charge that the next move after common core standards, MORE TESTS, is a serious mistake.

Beware New Paternalism of "No Excuses" Charter Schools

See this revealing post at Schools Matter