Poverty Schools

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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....

    Non-member price: $16.99 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: $16.99 or 1 Credit

    • 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....

    Non-member price: $19.99 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: $19.99 or 1 Credit

    • 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....

    Non-member price: $21.99 or 1 Credit

    Sale price: $21.99 or 1 Credit

    • 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....

    Non-member price: $21.99 or 1 Credit

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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....

    Non-member price: $27.99 or 1 Credit

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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.....

    Non-member price: $18.99 or 1 Credit

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    • By: Kurtis Scaletta
    • Narrated by: Everette Plen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 13-09-2011
    • Language: English
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    • When 13-year-old Eric Parrish comes across glowing mushrooms in the woods behind his house, he's sure there's a scientific explanation....

    Non-member price: $21.99 or 1 Credit

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