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Item Nr: B 91509 Title: Framework for Understanding Poverty (4th Ed)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Payne, Ruby
Length: 199 Prod/Pub: Aha! Process
Copyright: 2005 Series:
Book Type: N Biographee:
Copies: 1 Loan Period: 14 days
 
  Identifies the factors that cause poverty, including the lack of financial, emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical resources. Guides educators and others in understanding poverty and counteracting its effects in the classroom and community. Chapters include definitions and resources; role of language and story, hidden rules among classes; characteristics of generational poverty; role models and emotional resources; support systems; discipline; instruction and improving achievement; and creating relationships.

  Subjects:
  1342 - AT-RISK
  1592 - CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT
  858 - DISABILITIES--PHYSICAL/PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED
  424 - ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
  885 - POVERTY
  1005 - SOCIAL PROBLEMS
  1227 - SOCIALLY HANDICAPPED
  1011 - SOCIOLOGY