Poverty
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This paper will discuss childhood poverty as it is a continuously increasing concern for the federal, state and local levels of government. Many policies are being considered or have been enacted to help reduce the number of children being raised in low-income families through prevention and intervention programs. However, as the United States continues to battle the economic emergency felt throughout the country, one can only assume that the percentage of children of poverty will continue to rise. As a result, educators struggle to work with these children as the resources once readily available are difficult to access as schools are required to cut classified and certificated ...
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the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) (Neuman, 2009). All students despite educational ability, limited English deficiency, socioeconomic status (SES), gender and race are expected to meet the proficiency rate of 100% by the year 2014. Although textbooks, technology, and highly qualified teachers have proven to increase proficiency rates, there is still grave concern among those within the educational system that the expected 100% rate is unattainable due to circumstances that affect students' academic ability and beyond educators' control (Neuman, 2009).
Demographic factors which include, but are not limited to, race/ethnicity, gender, social class, and family are beyond the control of educators (Neuman, 2009). However, each of these factors plays a significant role in the academic success of students. Neuman (2009) stated "the single best determinant of a school's likely output is a single input - the characteristics of the entering children" (p. 582). For example, ...
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concerning poverty. Counselors need to have an understanding of the consequences of poverty on children and the interventions that are appropriate to use with children of poverty.
The Effects of Poverty on Children
Little argument can be made against the fact that the more money within a family, the better the children do academically, socially, and physically. Nonetheless, in the U.S. there are 12 million children who live at the federal poverty level (National Center for Children in Poverty [NCCP], 2003). Even more alarming are the statistics that show the numbers and percentages are far worse as many live below the minimum of economic security but above the federal poverty ...
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