Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 14th, 2009 4 Comments »
This is where I conclude my series on poverty and education. In the first installment, I discussed overall theory about poverty, and how education fits in to these (not well as a cure). I then discussed the particular actions that a school could take to improve relations with parents that have issues with schools that [...]
Posted in Policy, Research, Theory on Jan 5th, 2009 1 Comment »
In my first post in this series on poverty and education, I introduced this work by economist Charles Karelis, Economist’s View: Is Poverty Caused by Irrational Behavior? which got to an underlying truth, that when you are poor, you may not be capable of making “rational” choices, because you have too many problems to deal [...]
Posted in Lessons Learned, Policy, Practice, Research, Theory on Dec 31st, 2008 32 Comments »
Dangerously Irrelevant: Beware outside consultants? – Part 2, Ruby Payne started a whole slew of arguments about poverty. Can education “fix” poverty? Can eduction be effective without addressing the underlying poverty of the poor? There were a lot of assumptions, especially among those with a deficit view, that I’ll sum up as “poor folks, have [...]
