04.06.2009 2:50 pm

More sobering research on poverty, stress and a child’s ability to learn

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

If you’ve been following previous posts here about the predominance of Post Traumatic Stress disorder in at-risk St. Louis school children, or my Sunday story on probationary juveniles participating in the city’s Gun Court, you know that researchers have found…

For poor kids, classroom learning is one piece of the puzzle

By Steve Giegerich

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Paul Tough, a top-shelf narrator on the topic of urban education, writes in The New York Times Magazine of an emerging theory of thought promoted in differing ways by two prominent scholars and an equally prominent social activist. The theory posits…

Today’s article on poverty and median household income

By Nancy Cambria

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In response to our story on U.S. Census figures released Tuesday entitled, Poverty on the rise on the Missouri, I got some e-mails asking me to post the 2007 and 2008 poverty guidelines. The 2007 income poverty level set by…

More sobering research on poverty, stress and a child’s ability to learn

For poor kids, classroom learning is one piece of the puzzle

Today’s article on poverty and median household income

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