Evidence

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Stereotypes about poor families and education
Stereotype 1: Poor People do not value education
Stereotype
. They do not set high standards for their kids
.Not strict on struggles in academics.
.Never reach out to schools in concern of their childs academic achievements
.Focused more on the sports aspect of school
Study/Evidence
in a study of low-income urban families, Compton-Lilly (2000) found that parents overwhelmingly
have high educational expectations for their children and expect their childrens teachers to have
equally high expectations for them, particularly in reading;
in their study focusing on low-income African American parents, Cirecie West-Olatunji and her
colleagues (2010) found that they regularly reached out to their childrens schools and stressed
the importance of education to their children;
using data from the more than 20,000 families that participated in the Early Childhood
Longitudinal Study, Carey Cooper and her colleagues (2010) found, quite simply, that
poor parents reported engaging their children in home-learning activities as often as
nonpoor parents (p. 876). Reaching and Teaching Students in poverty
Stereotype 2: Poor people are lazy
Stereotype: poor people have weak work ethics
.laziness rubs off on their children
.poor working adults work, on average, 2,500 hours per year, the rough equivalent of 1.2 full
time jobs (Waldron, Roberts, & Reamer, 2004), often patching together several parttime jobs in order to support their families.
.Hard working low income parents can influence their children to work even harder in school to
create a better life for the whole family
Stereotype 3 poor people are substance abusers
Stereotype 4: poor people are poor Communicators

lower class children begin school with less developed reading skills
this discrepancy found in reading skills is not connected to a language use deficiency or that it
reflects parental disinterest in education but it has to do with access. poor families rarely
have access to high quality early childhood education programs that support children
language learning in intensive
Stereotype 5: Poor people are Inefective and Inattentive parents.
researchers routinely found that parens and guardians are extremely attentive to their childrens needs
despite the many barriers they must overcome to provide for their families. This is no less true for
poor single mothers, who often are the most scorned targets of the bad parent stereotype. We
already established, for instance, that poor single mothers overwhelmingly claim a sense of
responsibility for inspiring their children to pursue higher education. More broadly speaking,
when Robert Hawkins (2010) used a variety of qualitative research techniques to examine how 20
formerly homeless single mothers use their social networks to improve their lives, he found that
they prioritized the wellbeing of their children in virtually every decision they made.

the teachers in low income

labor economist Dan Goldhaber, published a new study with some of the most convincing
evidence yet.
His study, written with two colleagues, one at the American Institutes for Research, where
Goldhaber is a vice president, and one at Macalester College, measured teacher quality in three
different ways for every teacher in the state of Washington. They looked not only at student test
score gains, but also at years of teacher experience and teacher licensing exam scores. Their
study, "Uneven Playing Field? Assessing the Teacher Quality Gap Between Advantaged and
Disadvantaged Students," was published online in the journal Educational Researcher on June
29, 2015.

result: Disadvantaged students across elementary, middle school and high

schools of Washington ended up with the worst teachers
Teachers in disadvantaged student environments
.lowest test scores
.fewest years of experience
.lowest licensure exam scores
study defined disadvantaged students by:

.income
.race
if they were struggling academically
solution: pay teachers better to teach tougher schools and you'll get better
results
high income lower self esteem
teacher believed young Lennon was hopeless. report card read Certainly
on the road to failure
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