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Annotated Bibliography

Is education the key to ending the poverty cycle?

Juan Gonzalez

Professor Malcolm Campbell

UWRT 1104

10/18/2018
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Annotated Bibliography

Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne, and Greg J. Duncan. “The Effects of Poverty on Children.” The Future of

Children, vol. 7, no. 2, 1997, pp. 55–Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne, and Greg J. Duncan. “The

Effects of Poverty on Children.” The Future of Children, vol. 7, no. 2, 1997, pp. 55–71.

JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1602387.71. JSTOR, JSTOR,

www.jstor.org/stable/1602387. Accessed.

This journal article was written by Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Greg J. Duncan and was published

by Princeton University. This journal article focuses on studies that focus on exploring

the relationship between poverty and child outcomes. This journal article is objectively

talking about poverty and its effects that it has on education and the devolvement of a

child. It being objectively talking about poverty there really isn’t any or as many biased

points as my other sources. There were many important points that the authors go into

depth about. “One being that family income appears more strongly related to children’s

ability and achievement than their emotional outcomes.” (Brooks) In other words,

poverty has more of an effect on a child’s ability to learn and complete their

achievements than their emotions which is something many people believe is all poverty

effects. Another point that the authors talked about is the timing of poverty and how it is

important for the outcome of the child. Children in poverty at a much younger age are

more like to drop out of school or not complete school than children that experienced

poverty in later years. This article was written by Jeanne Brooks-Gunn an American

developmental psychologist and professor of Child Development. Brooks-Gunn has

written numerous books and published more than 500 articles, her work focuses on
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poverty. Greg Duncan is also an author of this article and his current research projects

include an examination of how children’s early skills and behaviors relate their later life

outcome. With this being said the information is reliable and is supposed to allow people

to understand the relationship between poverty and children’s development. This article

has given me a better insight into the effects that poverty has on a child’s development.

This article was filled with research that helped me better understand poverty and its

effects and I was able to see the effects without seeing them. Even though this article was

written in 1997 it still has a lot of information that I will use in my project because of all

the research that was done.

Slade, Sean. “Poverty Affects Education--And Our Systems Perpetuate It.” The Huffington Post,

TheHuffingtonPost.com, 24 July 2016, www.huffingtonpost.com/sean-slade/poverty-

affects-education_b_7861778.html.

It is a newspaper article that was published in the Huffington Post. This article goes into depth

about the effects that poverty has on education and how our systems perpetuate them.

The author's point of view is that poverty is something that is “affecting many aspects of

life like, education, the economy, and the future.”. He also believes that poverty “is

becoming the norm and we appear reluctant to address it” (Slade). Throughout the article,

Slade talked about many different topics and these are some that popped out the most. It

is been 51 years since the nation declared poverty unacceptable. The last time the nation

declared poverty unacceptable was when Lyndon B. Johnson was in office and he

launched the War on Poverty in 1964. Another important topic that Slade talked about

was how we have steps in place to change poverty, but we have not put them to use.

After he talked about this step he mentioned how there are also solutions that we can put
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in place to fix the poverty cycle in the school systems. For example, he talked about

changing the formula by which we fund our schools and giving students in poverty the

same amount of access to relevant and challenging coursework as their wealthier

counterparts. The information presented in this article is information that was given by

Sean Slade is the senior director of Global Outreach at ASCD a global leadership

organization and, has over 25 years of experience in education. He wrote an article in the

Huff Post about the effects that poverty has on education and he wanted to communicate

and put more emphasis on these effects because they are not emphasized or talked about

enough. This article has given me a better insight into the effects that poverty has on

education and some solutions to fix these effects. The solutions helped me better

understand the smaller problems under the big problem. I will use this source in my

project because of the reliability of the information.

Watch, and By. “Facts About Child Poverty in the U.S.A. | Children International | US Poverty

Facts.” Children International, www.children.org/global-poverty/global-poverty-

facts/facts-about-poverty-in-usa.

This website only has information on poverty. Instead of having information on one specific

topic in poverty it has facts on different topics of poverty. For example, it has information

on poverty and empowerment and talks about how empowering kids has a big effect on

poverty. Giving kids confidence that can help them break free from poverty. Another

topic that the website is talking about is child poverty in the US. It talks about the states

with the highest rates of child poverty. It also talks about how the federal spending on

kids lowered and how the government only spends 10% of the national budget on kids.

The information on this website is cited and they have links to their sources. Based on
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some of the sources that this website provided the information given is reliable. This

website is different from my other annotations because it has way more information on

poverty and it does not just focus on one main topic. I will use some of the information

given to me by this website. I mostly intend to use the statistics that they gave on poverty

in the US.

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