Links To Center of Excellence Resources

Articles:

• Newsweek Health, Sept. 11, 2006 issue: The New First Grade: Too Much Too Soon?
• Decatur Daily News, Sept. 06, 2005 issue: Children and poverty: How teachers overcome barriers.
• The Item, Sumter, SC, October 22, 2006 issue: “How do you get out of poverty”
  • (Month-long series, click Poverty at top of page to view all the articles in the series)
• The Achievement Gap: Overcoming the Income Gap (article) INFOBRIEF
• Recent Research on the Achievement Gap
• Education Week article "From Cradle to Career - Connecting American Education From Birth Through Adulthood"
• “Poverty in America with Some Focus on South Carolina” by Richard D. Young
• “The Effects of Poverty on Teaching and Learning” by Karen M. Pellino
• edweek.org Online Chat – Feb. 12, 2007 - Topic: Educational Equity on Trial
• National Center for Children of Poverty article, Sept. 2006
  • “Effective Preschool Curricular and Teaching Strategies”
• Creating Good Schools for Children in Poverty Through Title 1 Schoolwide Programs
• Education World Wire Side Charts – How Understanding Poverty Can Help Low-Income Children Learn
• Rand Corporation – Children at Risk - Consequences for School Readiness and Beyond
• Preparing teachers for children in poverty…
• http://www2.edtrust.org/EdTrust/Press+Room/High+School+2005.htm
• http://www2.edtrust.org/EdTrust/Press+Room/Funding+Gap+2005.htm
• http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2006-04-26-teachers-poor_x.htm
• http://search.learningpt.org/query.html?qt=achievement+gap
  • “Breaking the Link Between Teacher Expectations and Black Students’ Performance”
  • “Teachers Make a Difference in Student Performance”
  • “Researchers Offer Lessons Learned to Overcome the Achievement Gap”
• http://www-gse.berkeley.edu/research/crede/tools/aera/position_paper.html
  • “Closing the Achievement Gap Through Teacher Preparation”
• http://www.edexcellence.net/foundation/publication/publication.cfm?id=363
  • “How Well Are States Educating Our Neediest Children”
• http://www.nwea.org/assets/research/national/AchGap_11.11.061.pdf
  • “Achievement Gap: An Examination of Differences in Student Achievement and Growth”
• Risk and Protective Factors for Childhood Vulnerability
  • Dr. Doug Willms (2007 COE Spring Colloquium speaker)
• http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2007/01/04/17wellbeing.h26.html
• http://www.thestate.com/editorial-columns/story/185851.html
  • “Schools Can’t Repair All of Poverty’s Ills”
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6982090.stm
  • Schools alone ‘cannot help poor’ – BBC News
• http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3785/is_199809/ai_n8814936
  • Teaching for Meaning in High-Poverty Classrooms – www.FindArticles.com
• Preparing Teachers for Children in Poverty – The School Administrator – Dec. 05
• http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org/indicators/4Poverty.cfm
  • Children in Poverty
• http://www.uwsp.edu/Education/lwilson/poems/dressings.htm
  • Poem:Dressings
• http://www.prb.org/Articles/2008/childpoverty.aspx
• Child Poverty is Highest in Rural Counties in U.S.
• http://www.ncfr.org/about/news_read.asp?id=1070
  • National Council on Family Relations – “Future of Children Fall 2007 Journal”
• Researchers Gain Understanding of How Poverty Alters the Brain
• Poor Rural Children Attract Close Study
• What We All (Supposedly) Know About the Poor: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Ruby Payne’s “Framework.” – Available in the Center of Excellence Office Resource Library

  
  

  
  

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