School Performance and poverty

The article by Budge sheds light on how poverty affects students’ ability to learn. Budge uses a sharp style to explain how the socioeconomic circumstances of the families affect the growth of the kids. The author looks at how poverty affects a variety of characteristics, including language, health, mobility, and material resources.

The paper is helpful for the research since it explores how poverty restricts families in several facets of social life. Budge examines the health issues that result from poverty and how they prevent kids from learning well. The proposition that lack of material resources inhibits the mobility of the students to school makes the article appropriate for an investigation into how poverty affects the performance of the K-12 children academically.

Engle, P. L., & Black, M. M. (2008). The effect of poverty on child development and educational outcomes. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1136(1), 243-256.

The article examines the link between poverty and child development and how it impacts the child’s academic performance. The authors discuss the direct and indirect impact of poverty on the child’s development citing that poverty invokes chronic stress on the children. Therefore, the continued stress in early life impairs the child’s ability to develop linguistic and academic performance.

Presentation of various cases from different countries on how poverty affects the development of children can be utilized in the research on poverty and the academic performance of K-12 children. Readers will find the presented developmental theories informative for the study.

Hair, N. L., Hanson, J. L., Wolfe, B. L., & Pollak, S. D. (2015). Association of child poverty, brain development, and academic achievement. JAMA pediatrics, 169(9), 822-829.

Hair et al. investigates the impact of household poverty on the structural brain development and the effect on academic performance. The authors discuss socioeconomic aspects like family income by linking them to the children’s brain development. They propose that when children do not get adequate basic needs, they get stressed and it, in turn, affects their cognitive development.

Results from the analysis show that low-income family backgrounds impair the child’s cognitive development as the brain is frequently stressed in early life. The inclusion of the correlation between poverty and cognitive development and how they impact academic performance make the article appropriate for the study.

Jensen, E. (2017). How Poverty Affects Behavior and Academic Performance. Ascd.org. Retrieved 20 September 2017, from http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/109074/chapters/How- Poverty-Affects-Behavior-and-Academic-Performance.aspx

In this article, Jensen examines how poverty affects the behavior of children and their academic performance. Poverty contributes to social and emotional challenges which impact on the behavior of the child in the learning environment. Also, the difficulty in accessing basic needs due to poverty contributes to health and cognitive issues that are chronic stressors.

Chapter 2 of the text presents critical information that can be incorporated in the study on how poverty impacts the academic performance for the K-12 children. The chapter addresses theories on social and emotional challenges and how the two contribute to cognitive lags. As such, the information can be useful for analysis of acute stressors that impact the mental processes of the children and how they relate to poverty.

Lacour, M., & Tissington, L. D. (2011). The effects of poverty on academic achievement. Educational Research and Reviews, 6(7), 522-527.

Lacour and Tissington, in this article, examines the relationship between poverty and school performance. The authors present statistics on family income and how it affects the school performance of the children. Furthermore, the authors investigate how the level of education for a mother can impact on the school performance of a child.

Correlating family income to the school performance of the children makes the article useful for the study as it provides statistical data on the link between poverty and school performance. Also, the examination on how mother’s level of education relates to poverty and how it can affect the school performance of the children makes the article indispensable due to its incisive approach.

References

Budge, W. (2017). How Does Poverty Influence Learning?. Edutopia. Retrieved 20 September 2017, from https://www.edutopia.org/blog/how-does-poverty-influence-learning-william- parrett-kathleen-budge

Engle, P. L., & Black, M. M. (2008). The effect of poverty on child development and educational outcomes. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1136(1), 243-256.

Hair, N. L., Hanson, J. L., Wolfe, B. L., & Pollak, S. D. (2015). Association of child poverty, brain development, and academic achievement. JAMA pediatrics, 169(9), 822-829.

Jensen, E. (2017). How Poverty Affects Behavior and Academic Performance. Ascd.org. Retrieved 20 September 2017, from http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/109074/chapters/How- Poverty-Affects-Behavior-and-Academic-Performance.aspx

Lacour, M., & Tissington, L. D. (2011). The effects of poverty on academic achievement. Educational Research and Reviews, 6(7), 522-527.