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THE POVERTY AND EDUCATION READER This page intentionally left blank THE POVERTY AND EDUCATION READER A Call for Equity in Many Voices Edited by Paul C. Gorski and Julie Landsman sterling, virginia COPYRIGHT © 2014 BY STYLUS PUBLISHING, LLC. Published by Stylus Publishing, LLC 22883 Quicksilver Drive Sterling, Virginia 20166-2102 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying, recording, and information storage and retrieval, without permission in writing from the publisher. Chapter 2, “On Lilacs, Tap-Dancing, and Children of Poverty,” and Chapter 9, “On Grifters, Research, and Poverty,” reprinted with permission of Phi Delta Kappa, Intl. www.pdkintl.com. All rights reserved. Chapter 4, “How School Taught Me I Was Poor,” reprinted with permission from Teaching Tolerance and the Southern Poverty Law Center. All rights reserved. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The poverty and education reader : a call for equity in many voices / edited by Paul C. Gorski and Julie Landsman. -- First edition. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-57922-858-3 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-57922-859-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-57922-860-6 (library networkable e-edition) ISBN 978-1-57922-861-3 (consumer e-edition) 1. Children with social disabilities--Education--United States. 2. Poor children--Education--United States. 3. Educational equalization--United States. 4. Poverty--United States. I. Gorski, Paul C., editor of compilation. II. Landsman, Julie, editor of compilation. LC4091.P64 2013 371.826’94--dc23 2013024438 13-digit ISBN: 978-1-57922-858-3 (cloth) 13-digit ISBN: 978-1-57922-859-0 (paper) 13-digit ISBN: 978-1-57922-860-6 (library networkable e-edition) 13-digit ISBN: 978-1-57922-861-3 (consumer e-edition) Printed in the United States of America All fi rst editions printed on acid-free paper that meets the American National Standards Institute Z39-48 Standard. Bulk Purchases Quantity discounts are available for use in workshops and for staff development. Call 1-800-232-0223 First Edition, 2014 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To Althea and Bobby with love and respect. —Paul With gratitude to the students who raised me, their parents who were patient with me, and my f ellow teachers who fi ght for equity and go the distance every day in schools all across this country. —Julie This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Introduction 1 PART ONE: COUNTERSTORIES: INSIDERS’ VIEWS ON POVERTY AND SCHOOLING 1. First Grade Lesson 9 Sandy Nesbit Tracy 2. On Lilacs, Tap-Dancing, and Children of Poverty 11 Bobby Ann Starnes 3. Class, Race, and the Hidden Curriculum of Schools 15 Buffy Smith 4. How School Taught Me I Was Poor 23 Jeff Sapp 5. The Places Where We Live and Learn 27 Mementos From a Working-Class Life Jaye Johnson Thiel 6. Alone at School 33 Scot Allen 7. Low-Income, Urban Youth Speaking Up About Public Education 38 Iabeth Galiel Briones, Diamond Dominique Hull, and Shifra Teitelbaum PART TWO: IDENTIFYING THE “PROBLEM”: FROM A DEFICIT VIEW TO A RESILIENCY VIEW 8. Save You or Drown You 51 Stacy Amaral 9. On Grifters, Research, and Poverty 56 Bobby Ann Starnes vii viii CONTENTS 10. There Really Is a Culture of Poverty 60 Notes on Black Working-Class Struggles for Equity and Education Kristen L. Buras 11. Way Down Yonder in the Pawpaw Patch 75 Resiliency in Appalachian Poverty Joy Cowdery 12. Mending at the Seams 86 The Working-Class Threads That Bind Us Jaye Johnson Thiel 13. “Student Teachers” 94 What I Learned From Students in a High-Poverty Urban High School Lori D. Ungemah 14. The Poor Are Not the Problem 102 Class Inequality and the Blame Game Nicholas Daniel Hartlep PART THREE: MAKING CLASS INEQUITY VISIBLE 15. blissful abyss or how to look good while ignoring poverty 115 Tricia Gallagher-Geurtsen 16. The Great Equalizer? 117 Poverty, Reproduction, and How Schools Structure Inequality Taharee A. Jackson 17. A Pedagogy of Openness 131 Queer Theory as a Tool for Class Equity Whitney Gecker 18. First Faint Lines 135 Sherrie Fernandez-Williams 19. “Who Are You to Judge Me?” 147 What We Can Learn From Low-Income, Rural Early School Leavers Janet Kesterson Isbell 20. Looking Past the School Door 156 Children and Economic Injustice Steve Grineski and Ok-Hee Lee CONTENTS ix PART FOUR: INSISTING ON EQUITY: STUDENTS, PARENTS, AND COMMUNITIES FIGHT FOR JUSTICE 21. Reckoning 169 Paul C. Gorski 22. Traversing the Abyss 171 Addressing the Opportunity Gap John N. Korsmo 23. Fostering Wideawakeness 183 Third-Grade Community Activists Lenny Sánchez 24. Parents, Organized 195 Creating Conditions for Low-Income Immigrant Parent Enagement in Public Schools Russell Carlock 25. Challenging Class-Based Assumptions 207 Low-Income Families’ Perceptions of Family Involvement Lisa Hoffman PART FIVE: TEACHING FOR CLASS EQUITY AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE 26. V 221 Elizabeth E. Vaughn 27. Coming Clean 223 Carolyn L. Holbrook 28. Insisting on Class(room) Equality in Schools 230 Curt Dudley-Marling 29. Cultivating Economic Literacy and Social Well-Being 241 An Equity Perspective Susan Santone and Shari Saunders 30. Becoming Upstanders 254 Humanizing Faces of Poverty Using Literature in a Middle School Classroom Wendy Zagray Warren
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