Re: The Word Not Mentioned in the Debate: Poverty

Some blog followers might be interested in a recent discussion-list post “Re: The Word Not Mentioned in the Debate: Poverty” [Hake (2012)]. An abstract is:

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ABSTRACT:
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" at http://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.
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“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 [URL’s shortened by http://bit.ly/ and accessed on 04 Oct 2012.
Hake, R.R. 2012. “Re: The Word Not Mentioned in the Debate: Poverty,” online on the OPEN AERA-L archives at http://bit.ly/QJWvds. Post of 4 Oct 2012 12:56:14-0700 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. An abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to several discussion lists..

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.

The Overriding Influence of Poverty on Children's Educational Achievement

Some blog followers might be interested in a recent discussion-list post
“The Overriding Influence of Poverty on Children’s Educational Achievement” [Hake (2011)]. The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT: In response to my post “Why Minnesotans Excel at Math and Other Mysteries of the Nation's Report Card” [Hake (2011)], EDDRA2’s Gary Ravani wrote (paraphrasing): “That children in Minnesota and Massachusetts excel at math could be explained by the fact that those two states have child poverty rates (14% and 15% respectively) well below the national rate of 22%.”

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

a. Whither Opportunity? Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children's Life Chances [Duncan & Murnane (2011)] at http://bit.ly/nCkmKv;

b. “Re: Economic Inequality: The Real Cause of Urban School Problems #2” [Hake (2011b)] at http://bit.ly/ozuZEn;

c. “Class Matters. Why Won't We Admit It?” [Ladd & Fiske (2011)] at http://nyti.ms/vx3nub;

d. “Failure of U.S. Public Secondary Schools in Mathematics: Poverty is a More Important Cause than Teacher Quality” [Marder (2011a)] at http://bit.ly/fjUquC;

e. “Education and Poverty: Visualizations of World, US, and State-level Educational Data” [Marder (2011b)] at http://bit.ly/nYC6eF;

f. “The hard bigotry of low expectations and low priorities” [Ravani (2011b)] at http://bit.ly/sUZ17T;

g. “Unaddressed Link Between Poverty & Education” [Schaffer (2011)] at http://bit.ly/tbckql.
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
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“. . .let's not pretend that family background does not matter and can be overlooked. Let's agree that we know a lot about how to address the ways in which poverty undermines student learning. Whether we choose to face up to that reality is ultimately a moral question.”
Ladd & Fiske (2011)

REFERENCES [All URL’s shortened by http://bit.ly/ and accessed on 14 Dec 2011.]
Hake, R.R. 2011. “The Overriding Influence of Poverty on Children's Educational Achievement” online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://bit.ly/tUU65W. Post of 14 Dec 2011 09:56:02-0800 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to several discussion lists.

Ladd, H.E. & E.B. Fiske. 2011. “Class Matters. Why Won't We Admit It?” New York Times Opinion Piece, 11 Dec; online at http://nyti.ms/vx3nub.