27 Poverty
Poverty in Education
| “If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.” Susan B. Anthony |
Learning Targets
Students should be able to:
1.Define Poverty and Glocalization
2.Understand Poverty in America
3.Understand No Child Left Behind Policy
What is Poverty and Glocalization?
Not having a roof over your head or food on the table is not the only poverty in the nation. Poverty also plays a huge role in education. The Merriam – Webster Dictionary defines poverty as the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions. Education and poverty go hand in hand especially throughout different regions of the United States. “Glocalization is a term that was invented in order to emphasize that the globalization of a product is more likely to succeed when the product or service is adapted specifically to each locality or culture it is marketed in (Language Translation, 2006.)” Some parts of the United States of America have better education than other regions because of their location and their poverty level. In the wealthier places, they can get the resources that they need to be able to teach; as for the non-wealthier places it is harder for them to get the same resources to teach effectively and up to date.
Poverty in America
In 2007, the statistics of people in poverty in the United States was 37.3 million. According to LexisNexis Academics the number of the poor was 9.5% in the Midwest region of the United States and 12.5% in the South region of the United States during the year 2000. The south’s poverty rate was at the lowest it has ever been. The United States Census Bureau states that the poverty rate during the year 2007 was the lowest rate ever since the year 1959 and those rates of 2007 were the highest than during the year 2000 rates. The percent of poverty for children under the age of 18 was at 18.0% in the year 2007. Robert E. Rector and Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D stated in Understanding Poverty in America, that the two main reasons why children are poor are because their parents do not work enough or they live in a single family home. They say that only sixteen hours of work a week is the amount that their parents work, which adds up to eight hundred a year. Two-thirds of children are children that are living in single family homes, it is stated that if the parents weren’t single then the children would be lifted out of the poverty level (Heritage.Org).
| To Read More on Poverty in America http://www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/bg1713.cfm |
No Child Left Behind Policy
In January 8, 2002, George W. Bush signed No Child Left Behind into the law. “It redefines the federal role in K-12 education and will help close the achievement gap between disadvantaged and minority students and their peers. It is based on four basic principles: strong