6Statements About Poverty
Takeaways
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Students’ socioeconomic backgrounds have a
huge effect on their academic outcomes. But so do
the backgrounds of the peers who surround them.
Poor students in mixed-income schools do better
than poor students in high-poverty schools.
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—Halley Potter, p. 38
If you truly care
about your
students, stop
telling them
what to do and
start teaching
them how
to do it.
—Eric Jensen, p. 24
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If we do not find ways
to reduce the growing
inequality in education
outcomes, the promise
that one can rise, through
education and hard work,
to any position in society
is no longer a reality.
—Sean F. Reardon, p. 10
When their home life
is chaotic and unsafe,
children need to find
shelter and inspiration
somewhere.
That “somewhere”
may be your school.
—Margaret Donovan, Patrick
Galatowitsch, Keri Hefferin,
and Shanita Highland, p. 66
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Source:
The collective
wisdom of authors
published in the
May 2013 issue
of Educational
Leadership,
“Faces of Poverty”
(Volume 70, Issue 8).
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Teachers need to spend less
energy brainstorming how
we can get parents to step
through the school doors
and, instead, ask themselves
when they will step through
students’ front doors.
—Stephanie Smith, p. 76
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Never say to a student,
“If you want to fail,
I guess that’s up to you.”
Schools shouldn’t allow
students to make such
a decision, one that will
decide their fate in school.
