1. The document discusses how students living in poverty face gaps in areas like nutrition, healthcare, and housing stability that negatively impact their education. 2. It presents opposing views from two teachers - one argues students from their school can't perform at the level of others due to personalities and abilities, while the other says meeting basic needs should come before assignments. 3. The document argues all students deserve equal access to a high-quality education regardless of background, and closing the achievement gap requires high standards, aligned assessments, and extra support for struggling students.

1. Poverty and its Effect on
Education
Community Based Research Project: CCRS Standards in Action
Felecia Resendez

2. The Genteel Unteaching of America’s Poor
--Kylene Beers
Who are “those” kids?
• Those who live in the gaps.
• The poverty gap
• The healthcare gap
• The nutrition gap
• Those whose lives are spent wondering…
• Where they’re going to sleep.
• Where their next meal is coming from.
• Those kids whose lifestyle is beyond their
control.

3. The Genteel Unteaching of America’s Poor
--Kylene Beers
“Those” Kids…
–Always need to be seated in their desks.
–Cannot handle discussion or inquiry.
–Cannot handle higher level thinking.
–Just need the basics.
–Need to learn to memorize information.
–Need STRUCTURE, RULES AND DISCIPLINE, and
we do them a service to provide it.

4. 2 Teachers, 2 Different
Opinions
Spanish Teacher/Basketball Career Education/Accounting/
Coach Cheer Coach
• “…at University, you are • “We have to meet some
of the most essential
limited due to the needs before we can
student’s personalities educate some of our
and academic abilities. students. Food, shelter
and safety are some times
Our students just can’t more important than a
do some of the things classroom assignment.
students at other But it doesn’t mean our
students are any less
schools can do.” capable.”

5. The Genteel Unteaching of America’s Poor
--Kylene Beers
“Those kids whose lives are
limited not by their potential
and not by their poverty but
by the interpretation of what
that poverty means they can
achieve.”

6. The Genteel Unteaching of America’s Poor
--Kylene Beers
Segregation by Intellectual Rigor
• Students of ALL backgrounds deserve
the same quality of education.
• “Those” kids deserve the same
education that is offered to students
whose parents know how to demand
and can afford better technology,
libraries, textbooks, teachers, supplies,
tutors, etc.

7. Closing the Achievement Gap
--Kati Haycock
Whose fault is it?
What are the What are the
teachers saying? students saying?
Children and their Teachers, Counselors, Prin
Families ciples, and the Curriculum

8. Closing the Achievement Gap
--Kati Haycock
Whose fault is it?
“They’re too poor,
Their parents don’t “What hurts us
care…” more is that you
teach us less.”

9. The Genteel Unteaching of America’s Poor
--Kylene Beers
“Children can come hungry or filthy; they
can speak English or Spanish; they can be
athletic or clumsy, artistic or musical; they
can be black or white; they can be gay or
straight, rich or poor; or Christian or
Atheist. They can know a little or a lot. In
public schools, teachers take students as
they are, respect all as they are, and
promise to teach all, as they are.”

10. So what do we need?
An Academic Core
• Clear and High Standards
• Assessments that align with
• Accountability that demands results for ALL
KINDS OF STUDENTS.
• Extra instruction for kids who need it.
• Intense efforts to improve teaching practices.