Annotation 2

Amanda Paul

English 104

Section #9

Instructor: Ogburn

Assignment #10

            The writer’s main point of this essay was to show that there is poverty in the United States not just in other places. The others main point was that poverty does effect education. The writer looked at the states with poverty and did an experiment to see if their test scores were lower than an area without poverty and it was proven that the children in poverty struggle more at school. Also, the writer’s main point in the other chapter I read in the book was that children coming from a home in poverty were most likely to drop out of high school especially if their parents lived in poverty since they were little.  The writer was trying to show how poverty affected the education of the children and their success in school.

The quote from Chapter 4 that stood out to me that Edwards said is “In 2002, the federal no Child Left Behind Act mandated the closing of the learning gap between low-income children and more advantage children. Now, all states are expected to conduct annual testing their public schools to assess the learning gap, although each state is permitted to devise its own system for accomplishing this objective” (49). This is saying that no child will be left alone ever in school and that the teachers and school will work with these children.  Along with saying that  Edwards also said that “...public elementary schools with economically   disadvantage student bodies are not closing the learning gap in reading, mathematics, or science, but neither are they falling farther behind” (61). The quote is trying to tell us that from the research they did in Kentucky is showing the schools with children in poverty are behind but it is also saying that other schools in the state are also behind in education. The last quote from the family and other baseline correlates of GED goes to say from Richard “ Elementary school children from single-parent families, many of whom are likely to be poor, might have greater need with more long –term consequences  in light of more limited human capital than is the case of children of two-parent families” (97). Children that are in poverty and with just one parent needs more help in education and wanting to be educated, then a child with two parents.

            This source I feel like is showing me that there is poverty in the United States to and more than what most people would think there is.   This is showing that education and survival is big, if the children do not get it they will not survive.   This is going to extend my research by giving us numbers of children that do not succeed in school due to poverty, also on how this will affect the survival rate of children.  This resource relates to my thematic essay by showing how important education is and how poverty can affect an area with not having an education. There is no quote that pertains to children and education but the one that makes me think the most would have to be Yunus and how he was education his students on poverty and showing his students how people live in poverty. Though the essay does not have any direct quotes to fit into the research does not mean it will not work it is able to relate to Yunus and also to Freire and his education of talking about  from Freire“problem posing” (62).

            I plan on using this source by taking numbers out of the graphs and trying to prove that an education does affect a Childs survival rate. Also I will use the source to show that a parent’s behavior affects a Childs education purpose.   This relates to the test by answering the questions of how do children live in an environment and how do they children get education. For example, looking at Yunus’s writing and seeing how the families had no money. How could the children go to school knowing that they had no idea of what was for dinner or if they were even having dinner?   How can you live in poverty came up as an interesting question and how many children live in poverty and struggle in life came into mind with reading the course text. This book will help answer these questions that I have asked.

            This source came from the library and I came across it by looking on the database for a book on poverty.   The author of chapter four is Edward Reevses and the author of the chapter six is Richard Caputo.  They are did research and presented it in an expert way.  This is book of child Poverty in America Today Volume 3. 

            This will connect to my other sources I have read by showing that education to affect the child if they are in poverty. It will connect by looking at the health of the children and their surroundings. Along with making an agreement with other sources about education and children in poverty are generally behind in school.  

Works Cited:

Caputo, Richard. “Family and Other Baseline Correlates of GED versus Other Academic Attainment Statuses among Adolescents”.  Child Poverty In America Volume 2. 2007.Page 97. Print.

  Freire, Paulo. “The Banking Concept of Education.” Reading the World: Ideas That Matter. 2^nd. Ed. Michael Austin. New York: Norton, 2003. 62-65. Print.

Reeves, Edward. “Are Children In Poverty closing the Learning Gap?  Education Reform and Elemantry School Perfomrance in Kentucky”.  Child Poverty In America Volume 3. 2007.Page 49,61. Print.