Queens Teacher: Accept it: Poverty hurts learning: Schools matter, but they're not all that matters

Queens Teacher: Accept it: Poverty hurts learning: Schools matter, but they're not all that matters

Accept it: Poverty hurts learning: Schools matter, but they're not all that matters

by Queens Teacher

Accept it: Poverty hurts learning: Schools matter, but they're not all that matters
BY Pedro Noguera

Thursday, September 2nd 2010

There has been a fierce, ongoing debate among educational leaders about how to teach poor children: One side has argued that we must address the wide variety of social issues (like poor health and nutrition, mobility, inadequate preparation for school, etc.) that tend to be associated with poverty. The other side has argued that