EDUCATION

1. EDUCATION

2. How Socioeconomic Status Effects Educational Success • Poverty, Nutrition & Health • Education of Parents • Economic Status of State • Dropout Rates • Effects of Society

3. Poverty, Nutrition & Health

4. Poverty, Nutrition, & Health • Poverty babies tend to have lower birth weights than babies not born into poverty • LBW has been proven to effect language comprehension skills and visual recognition acuity • LBW children have consistently lower scores in intelligence tests • LBW children have lower motor proficiency • LBW children tend to have more classroom behavioral problems

5. Poverty, Nutrition, & Health Children living in poverty: • Get sick more often than other children • Get hospitalized for longer periods of time • More likely to be injured due to physical abuse/ neglect

6. Poverty, Nutrition, & Health Researchers from Washington University School of Medicine conducted a study on the effects of poverty on the brain.

7. Poverty, Nutrition, & Health The children living in poverty that lacked nurturing had less gray and white matter in their brains. Gray matter shows intelligence and white matter shows the brains ability to transmit signals to cells. They found that parents living in poverty experienced more stress and were less nurturing to their children. They also found that the poorer children had smaller amygdala and hippocampus than the wealthier children. The Hippocampus is a structure in the brain associated with memory and learning The Amygdala is a structure in the brain that is linked to emotional health

8. Parental Education

9. Parents Who are Educated…. • Provide opportunities for learning outside of school • Know how to engage their children intellectually • Teach their children to have healthy attitudes about education • Have little behavior trouble in school with their children • Have more academically successful children • Have more confidence in their children’s academic abilities • Have higher expectations for their children

10. How Parental Education Helps • Educated parents have more means to provide their children with the best education possible • They invest in their children’s future because they understand the importance of education • Educated parents have a lesser chance of raising their children in poverty

11. Parents can change the world one child at a time

12. Economic Status of State

13. U.S. Education vs. Other Countries In 2009, The Organization for Economic and Co-Operation and Development conducted a study to gauge international student success. Even though we scored in the top percentile in comparison to the rest of the world, unfortunately it was apparent that our education system was insufficient in multiple areas.

14. PISA Student Overall Well-Being 2009 * UNICEF Scale represents a student’s overall well-being. 1 being the lowest and 6 being the highest.

15. PISA Reading/Math Scores 2009 “The patterns are fully consistent with the view that the low average test scores of U.S. students largely reflect our extremely high poverty rate and our relative lack of attention to the overall well- being of our children. “- Helen F. Ladd

16. Income vs. Education

17. 2011-2012 Top Ranked Income States

18. 2011-2012 Top Ranked States for Education 2011 2012 • Massachusetts • Vermont • New Jersey • Colorado • Pennsylvania • Rhode Island • North Carolina • Kansas • New Hampshire • New York • Maryland • New York • Massachusetts • Virginia • Florida • Arkansas • New Jersey • Georgia • Pennsylvania • West Virginia

19. * In 2011, none of the states in the bottom 20% for income made the top Education list.

20. * In 2012, Arkansas & West Virginia were the only low income states that made the top rank for education. This was a drastic rise after both states ranked in the lowest education percentile in 2011.

21. 2011-2012 Lowest Ranked Income States

22. 2011-2012 Lowest Ranked States for Education 2012 2011 42) Arizona 43) Oregon 44) Idaho 45) Nevada 46) Alaska 47) Montana 48) Mississippi 49) South Dakota 50) D.C. 51) Nebraska 42) Nebraska 43) Oklahoma 44) Tennessee 45) Arkansas 46) Michigan 47) Missouri 48) Mississippi 49) Louisiana 50) South Carolina 51) West Virginia

23. * In 2011, none of the states in the Top 20% for income made the Bottom Education list.

24. * In 2012, of the states in the Top 20% for income, only D.C. made the lowest Education list.

25. Conclusion for Income vs. Education • It is a rare occurrence for high ranking income states to be in the bottom percentile for education ranking. • It is a rare occurrence for low ranking income states to be in the top percentile for education ranking. • Even though a state’s income and educational success seem to correlate, there are other factors that can alter the success of our education system.

26. Drop-Outs

27. Dropout Facts • Average dropout rate of students living in poverty is near 31% • The rate of incarceration is 63 times higher than that of a college graduate • Number of high school dropouts per year are 3,030,000 • Amount of money a high school graduate will earn more than a drop out is $260,000 • Percent of US jobs a high school dropout is not eligible for is 90%

28. Why?? Six key factors • Academic Difficulty and Failure • Poor Attendance • Being Held Back (retention or repeat a grade) • Disengagement for School • Transition to a new school • Other life factors (Family problems, pregnancy, financial difficulties)

29. Dropout Rates

30. Effects of Poverty on Society

31. What is Poverty? • Synonym Study:Poverty, destitution, need, want  imply a state of privation and lack of necessities. Poverty  denotes serious lack of the means for proper existence: living in a state of extreme poverty. Destitution, a somewhat more literary word, implies a state of having absolutely none of the necessities of life: widespread destitution in countries at war. Need  emphasizes the fact that help or relief is necessary: Most of the people were in great need. Want  emphasizes privations, especially lack of food and clothing: Families were suffering from want. • Emotional Poverty: Emotional poverty suggests a depletion of emotional resources, an absence of emotional health and wellbeing, a state of lack rather than abundance.

32. What Living in Poverty is Like • Making excuses to not enter the lunch line with friends to avoid them knowing you eat free lunch • Not talking to that girl/boy because they’ll probably just laugh at your clothes • Hoping your kids don’t have a growth spurt • Hoping that nobody from your school is volunteering at the soup kitchen you eat at on the weekends • Teachers assuming you don’t have any books in your home • Your best Christmas present was box of crayons and a $1 coloring book from a community center Santa. • Off-brand and previously owned toys

33. “It’s just a way of life” • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/poor-kids/ • (watch first part, before the film actually starts. –talk about the kids’ comments and what they face)

34. In Conclusion Poverty and education correlate with one another We need to invest in our own education as well as the children of this country The more education we have, the less likely we are to live in poverty

35. Thank You