Majority of U.S. public school students are in poverty

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The rich are getting richer... at the expense of everyone else. http://qz.com/329099/80-rich-people-now-have-as-much-as-50-of-the-rest-of-humanity-combined/

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Anonymous wrote:Well, if there is no such thing as IQ, and it's all a blank slate, and anyone can be taught anything, who else ya gonna blame but the teachers when they fail to teach?

Whaaaatttt? If a kid comes to school hungry, cold and without a good foundation, what is that teacher really going to be able to do?

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers that teach the basics is key to ending inter-generational poverty. Education in the US tends to be inherited and not taught.

I spoke to a highly educated international family that is absolutely shocked by the amount of support they have to provide their children with homework and academics. My husband who also grew up overseas and has a doctorate from a prestigious US university never had to get help from his parents with schoolwork, which is a good thing because his parents were relatively well off, but had little formal education and likely couldn't help him anyway. The teachers conveyed the information to all the kids in the classroom, and each individual child had to take responsibility for his/her learning and was empowered to do so in school and at home with support from the classroom.

Shouldn't the US have a teaching model that develops a solid foundation for children in school? The reliance on parental help reinforces class and educational differences very early in life. If your parents cannot help you with school then you are completely lost.

There was a study several years ago about European educational systems were beating us. It basically said that because most European countries have free healthcare, early childhood and food subsidies, kids go to school healthier and ready to learn. The US is severely lacking.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers that teach the basics is key to ending inter-generational poverty. Education in the US tends to be inherited and not taught.

I spoke to a highly educated international family that is absolutely shocked by the amount of support they have to provide their children with homework and academics. My husband who also grew up overseas and has a doctorate from a prestigious US university never had to get help from his parents with schoolwork, which is a good thing because his parents were relatively well off, but had little formal education and likely couldn't help him anyway. The teachers conveyed the information to all the kids in the classroom, and each individual child had to take responsibility for his/her learning and was empowered to do so in school and at home with support from the classroom.

Shouldn't the US have a teaching model that develops a solid foundation for children in school? The reliance on parental help reinforces class and educational differences very early in life. If your parents cannot help you with school then you are completely lost.

There was a study several years ago about European educational systems were beating us. It basically said that because most European countries have free healthcare, early childhood and food subsidies, kids go to school healthier and ready to learn. The US is severely lacking.

Yep, a lot more societal equity, which reduced their achievement gaps.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers that teach the basics is key to ending inter-generational poverty. Education in the US tends to be inherited and not taught.

I spoke to a highly educated international family that is absolutely shocked by the amount of support they have to provide their children with homework and academics. My husband who also grew up overseas and has a doctorate from a prestigious US university never had to get help from his parents with schoolwork, which is a good thing because his parents were relatively well off, but had little formal education and likely couldn't help him anyway. The teachers conveyed the information to all the kids in the classroom, and each individual child had to take responsibility for his/her learning and was empowered to do so in school and at home with support from the classroom.

Shouldn't the US have a teaching model that develops a solid foundation for children in school? The reliance on parental help reinforces class and educational differences very early in life. If your parents cannot help you with school then you are completely lost.

There was a study several years ago about European educational systems were beating us. It basically said that because most European countries have free healthcare, early childhood and food subsidies, kids go to school healthier and ready to learn. The US is severely lacking.

That's also common sense, but because the school reformers who have been running DCPS don't believe it, they operate as if teachers can change everything.