Poverty Education

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    • By: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 871 ratings
    • The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....

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    • What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do About It
    • By: Eric Jensen
    • Narrated by: Basil Sands
    • Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • Educator and brain expert Eric Jensen takes an unflinching look at how poverty hurts children, families, and communities across the US and demonstrates how schools can improve the academic achievement and life readiness of economically disadvantaged students....

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    • By: Rex Ogle
    • Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
    • Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 248 ratings
    • Free Lunch is the story of Rex Ogle's first semester in sixth grade. Rex and his baby brother often went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school supplies, and Rex was on his school's free lunch program....

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    • For Black Men Who Demand Better
    • By: Aaron Clarey
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Black men suffer more than any other racial or sexual group in America. They have the lowest standards of living, shortest life expectancies, ...

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    • A Cognitive Approach (Sixth Edition)
    • By: Ruby K. Payne PhD
    • Narrated by: Ruby K. Payne
    • Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • With a view through an economic lens that has only become sharper and more focused since its initial publication in 1995, the premise owned by A Framework for Understanding Poverty is unchanged....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Philip N. Jefferson
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In this Very Short Introduction, Philip N. Jefferson explores how the answers to these questions lie in the social, political, economic, educational, and technological processes that impact all of us throughout our lives. The degree of vulnerability is all that differentiates us....

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    • By: James Allen
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • Although written at the turn of the century its themes are still current....

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    • Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs
    • By: Benjamin Herold
    • Narrated by: Benjamin Herold, Bethany Smith
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools....

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    • By: Victor Hugo
    • Narrated by: Walter Covell
    • Length: 33 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • Les Miserables is set in the Parisian underworld. The protagonist, Jean Valjean, is sentenced to prison for 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread....

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    • The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence - and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
    • By: Thomas Abt
    • Narrated by: Brad Raymond
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually possess all the tools necessary to stem violence in our cities....

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    • How Economic Inequality Fuels Criminal Behavior and What We Can Do About It
    • By: Barrett Williams, ChatGPT ChatGPT
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 08-26-24
    • Language: English
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    • Unlock the hidden connections between economy and crime with "Socioeconomic Roots of Crime." This groundbreaking eBook explores the intricate web ...

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    • A Guide to the Book by Matthew Desmond
    • By: ZIP Reads
    • Narrated by: Satauna Howery
    • Length: 53 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In his thought-provoking and deeply moving book, Matthew Desmond tackles the issue of poverty in America through the lens of eviction. (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.) Listen for more....

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    • New Tools to End Hunger
    • By: Katie S. Martin
    • Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Katie Martin presents a new model for charitable food, one where success is measured not by pounds of food distributed but by lives changed....

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    • A True Story of Refugee Twin Sisters and Their Triumph over War, Poverty, and Heartbreak
    • By: Argita Zalli, Detina Zalli
    • Narrated by: Allyson Voller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Born in poverty-stricken Albania, twin sisters Argita and Detina Zalli always dreamed of becoming doctors. Their parents scrimped and sacrificed, committed to giving them a better life. But then the unthinkable happened....

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    • A Personal Journey into How the World's Poorest People Are Educating Themsleves
    • By: James Tooley
    • Narrated by: James Foster
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • Everyone from Bono to the United Nations is looking for a miracle to bring schooling within reach of the poorest children on Earth. James Tooley found one hiding in plain sight....

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    • By: Francisco Jiménez
    • Narrated by: Robert Ramirez
    • Length: 5 hrs
    • Release date: 02-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • As he prepares to recite the Declaration of Independence before his eighth grade social studies class in California, the thing Francisco has feared for 10 years finally happens....

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    • Stories of Historic Struggles, New Ideas, and Inspiration in Immigrant Education
    • By: Jessica Lander
    • Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
    • Length: 14 hrs
    • Release date: 10-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A landmark work that weaves captivating stories about the past, present, and personal into an inspiring vision for how America can educate immigrant students....

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    • By: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The United States is the richest country on earth, yet has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. In Poverty, by America, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond examines the nature of American poverty today and the stories we tell ourselves about it....

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    • Rediscovering the Poor at Home and Abroad, 1941-1968
    • By: Sheyda F. A. Jahanbani
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In The Poverty of the World, Sheyda Jahanbani brings together the histories of United States foreign relations and domestic politics to explain why, during a period of unprecedented affluence, Americans rediscovered poverty and supported major policy initiative to combat it.

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