A National Crisis and a Call to Action: Preparing Teachers to Teach Children From Poverty

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Author(s): H. Carol Greene (East Carolina University, USA)and Jane C. Manner (East Carolina University, USA)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 24
Source title: Socio-Economic Development: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7311-1.ch013

Keywords: Business & Management / Economics & Economic Theory / Information Science Reference / Socio-Economic Development

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Well over 16,000,000 children live in poverty in the United States. One of the widest achievement gaps in education today exists between children from lower and upper income families. Our nation's teachers are woefully unprepared to work with children from poverty and the current soaring poverty rate is serving to exacerbate an already bad situation into a major educational crisis. Considerable dispute exists between and among differing approaches related to identifying an optimum way of perceiving and working with children of poverty, but the literature is clear that high quality professional development programs are critical for preparing teachers to work with these students. This chapter describes a program for preparing teachers to work with children of poverty that could be adapted for use in both preservice programs and also as professional development.

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