Poverty Schools

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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 856 ratings
    • The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....

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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 244 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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    • 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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    • 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 26 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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    • A High School Principal Examines How Poverty and Inequality Thwart the College- for-All Promise
    • By: Linda F. Nathan
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • In When Grit Isn't Enough, Nathan investigates five assumptions that inform our ideas about education today, revealing how these beliefs mask systemic inequity....

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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: 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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    • The Heart and Heartbreak of Teaching at a High-Poverty School in Washington, DC
    • By: Bernard Jankowski
    • Narrated by: Tom Pile
    • Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Music in the Halls reveals the inner workings of a high-poverty District of Columbia Public School, bringing to light the visceral and emotional nature of childhood poverty and trauma....

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    • School Resources, Outcomes, and Equity
    • By: W. Norton Grubb
    • Narrated by: Troy Klein
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In The Money Myth, W. Norton Grubb proposes a powerful paradigm shift in the way we think about why some schools thrive and others fail....

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    • Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!
    • By: Chelsea Clinton
    • Narrated by: Chelsea Clinton
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Get Informed! Get Inspired! Get Going! In an audiobook that tackles the biggest challenges facing us today, Chelsea Clinton combines facts, charts, photographs, and stories to give listeners a deep understanding of the world around them - and how anyone can make a difference....

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    • By: K.L. Going
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • When Iggy Corso gets kicked out of high school, there's no one for him to tell....

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    • Helping Pre-K-12 Students Regain Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Trauma, Racism, and Social Marginalization
    • By: Cia Verschelden, Kofi Lomotey - foreword
    • Narrated by: Emily Beresford
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-24
    • Language: English
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    • Each of us has a finite amount of mental bandwidth, the cognitive resources that are available for learning, development, work, and everything else we have to do. These "attentional resources" are not about how smart we are, but about how much of our brain power is available to us....

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    • By: Laurel A. Rockefeller
    • Narrated by: Alex Freeman
    • Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In this thought-provoking historical and economic analysis, Laurel A. Rockefeller takes on poverty culture head-on, exploring what it means to be poor in the United States....

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