Poverty Education

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    • A True Story of Refugee Twin Sisters and Their Triumph over War, Poverty, and Heartbreak
    • By: Argita Zalli, Detina Zalli
    • Narrated by: Allyson Voller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 27-06-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Born in poverty-stricken Albania, twin sisters Argita and Detina Zalli always dreamed of becoming doctors. Their parents scrimped and sacrificed, committed to giving them a better life. But then the unthinkable happened....

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    • A Personal Journey into How the World's Poorest People Are Educating Themsleves
    • By: James Tooley
    • Narrated by: James Foster
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-09-2014
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Everyone from Bono to the United Nations is looking for a miracle to bring schooling within reach of the poorest children on Earth. James Tooley found one hiding in plain sight....

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    • The Heart and Heartbreak of Teaching at a High-Poverty School in Washington, DC
    • By: Bernard Jankowski
    • Narrated by: Tom Pile
    • Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 28-11-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Music in the Halls reveals the inner workings of a high-poverty District of Columbia Public School, bringing to light the visceral and emotional nature of childhood poverty and trauma....

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    • Kids Can Help
    • By: Emily Raij
    • Narrated by: uncredited
    • Length: 16 mins
    • Release date: 24-04-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Make the world a better place for people in need! This book is full of ideas and projects listeners can put into action to fight poverty.

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    • What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do About It
    • By: Eric Jensen
    • Narrated by: Basil Sands
    • Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Educator and brain expert Eric Jensen takes an unflinching look at how poverty hurts children, families, and communities across the US and demonstrates how schools can improve the academic achievement and life readiness of economically disadvantaged students....

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    • A Children's Handbook on Empathy, Kindness and Making a Better World
    • By: Onjali Q. Raúf, Pippa Curnick - illustrator, Isobel Lundie - illustrator
    • Narrated by: Onjali Q. Raúf
    • Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 26-05-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Growing up, there is so much out of our control and to feel frustrated about. But in this inspiring and practical handbook, bestselling children's author and Human Rights campaigner, Onjali Raúf, shares her top ten ways for finding hope, creating change and making a difference....

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    • Stories of Historic Struggles, New Ideas, and Inspiration in Immigrant Education
    • By: Jessica Lander
    • Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
    • Length: 14 hrs
    • Release date: 04-10-2022
    • Language: English
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    • A landmark work that weaves captivating stories about the past, present, and personal into an inspiring vision for how America can educate immigrant students....

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    • School Resources, Outcomes, and Equity
    • By: W. Norton Grubb
    • Narrated by: Troy Klein
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 14-03-2013
    • Language: English
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    • In The Money Myth, W. Norton Grubb proposes a powerful paradigm shift in the way we think about why some schools thrive and others fail....

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    • A College Guidance Counselor, His Students, and the Vision of a Life Beyond Poverty
    • By: Joshua Steckel, Beth Zasloff
    • Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 25-03-2014
    • Language: English
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    • Since Joshua Steckel began work at a Brooklyn public high school as its first-ever college guidance counselor, every one of the hundreds of graduates he has counseled has been accepted to college....

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    • By: Victor Hugo
    • Narrated by: Walter Covell
    • Length: 33 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-2004
    • Language: English
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    • Les Miserables is set in the Parisian underworld. The protagonist, Jean Valjean, is sentenced to prison for 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread....

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    • By: Francisco Jiménez
    • Narrated by: Adrian Vargas
    • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-11-2009
    • Language: English
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    • From the perspective of the young adult he was then, Francisco Jiménez describes the challenges he faced in his efforts to continue his education.....

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    • A High School Principal Examines How Poverty and Inequality Thwart the College- for-All Promise
    • By: Linda F. Nathan
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-2017
    • Language: English
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    • In When Grit Isn't Enough, Nathan investigates five assumptions that inform our ideas about education today, revealing how these beliefs mask systemic inequity....

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    • New Tools to End Hunger
    • By: Katie S. Martin
    • Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Katie Martin presents a new model for charitable food, one where success is measured not by pounds of food distributed but by lives changed....

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    • By: Elizabeth Winthrop
    • Narrated by: Lili Gamache
    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-2007
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • It's the year 1910 in Pownal, Vermont. At 12, Grace and her best friend, Arthur, must leave school and go to work on the looms in the mill....

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    • Helping Pre-K-12 Students Regain Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Trauma, Racism, and Social Marginalization
    • By: Cia Verschelden, Kofi Lomotey - foreword
    • Narrated by: Emily Beresford
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 23-04-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Each of us has a finite amount of mental bandwidth, the cognitive resources that are available for learning, development, work, and everything else we have to do. These "attentional resources" are not about how smart we are, but about how much of our brain power is available to us....

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    • By: Francisco Jiménez
    • Narrated by: Adrian Vargas
    • Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-2009
    • Language: English
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    • Without bitterness or sentimentality, Francisco Jiménez finishes telling the story of his youth....

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    • By: Marc Favreau
    • Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-2018
    • Language: English
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    • Crash tells the story of the Great Depression, from the sweeping fallout of the market collapse to the more personal stories of those caught up in the aftermath....

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    • By: Lydia M. Sigwarth
    • Narrated by: Lydia M. Sigwarth, Ira Glass
    • Length: 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-2021
    • Language: English
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    • When Lydia was five years old, she and her family had to leave their home. They hopped from Grandma's house to Aunt Linda's house to Cousin Alice's house, but no place was permanent....

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