This document discusses how socioeconomic status shapes education through various hidden and explicit factors. It explores how poverty, middle class, and wealth view possessions, people, time, education, and the world differently. It also examines how the hidden curriculum in schools and hidden barriers like language can disadvantage those from lower socioeconomic classes. The document argues that while schools alone cannot solve inequality, they are important in providing opportunity and empowerment to help lift lower classes through education.

1. Poverty, Class, and Wealth How Our Socioeconomic Status Shapes Our Education Lisa Dowdall, J.P. Brichta, Alexander Rüthlein, and Meredith Clarey

2. What is the same? What is different?

4. The Rules of Society Poverty Middle Class Wealth Possessions People Things One-of-a-kind objects Money To be used, spent To be managed Connections Social Emphasis Inclusion of people who are liked Self-governance and self-sufficiency On exclusion Food Did you have enough? Did you like it? Was it presented well? Time Focus on present Focus on future Traditions and history Education Valued but abstract Crucial for success Making connections World View Local National International Love Conditional based on whether they are liked Based on achievement Financial, political, social connections

7. The Hidden Barriers: Language Parent Involvement” al “ can contribute to the classroom Middle Class: Lower Class: require help to raise their children Problems: Generalizations Categorizations Language shapes our perception of reality We have to be aware of the hidden implications of the language we use!