Ruby payne understanding poverty pdf

Building High-Achieving Schools

The book is primarily directed at building a model for combating poverty by tackling them at the earliest level of perpetuation - in schools.

Schools, Payne advocates, should be our first line of defense against encroaching poverty and also our most effective weapon to beat it back.

Unlike most economic tools, schools can be fine-tuned and  deployed according to strict frameworks.

The thrust is thus primarily on how to deal with poverty in schools and how to equip the students with tools and education to fight their way out of it.

For this teachers have to understand what poverty is and the disadvantages that characterize poverty — these are usually classed as inherent problems of the students, instead they have to be reframed as disadvantages that are the duty of the teachers to correct in any decent school environment.

The ‘Framework’ in the title is then a Framework for the Teachers.

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