CONNIE SNYDER MICK, Ph.D. | Engaged Teacher, Scholar, Administrator

Source: IRP-Morgridge Poverty Fact Sheets | Institute for Research on Poverty | University of Wisconsin–Madison

“We are asking students to change a belief system without changing the situation around them.”

Source: When the Focus on ‘Grit’ in the Classroom Overlooks Student Trauma – The Atlantic

Multidisciplinary faculty group will identify strategies for helping the world’s poor.

I love the “academic cluster” idea.   Such a good way to pool resources.

Source: Alumni Gifts of $10 Million Will Fund Poverty Research | Dartmouth Now

Source: For Women, Income Inequality Continues Into Retirement : NPR

A story rarely told about the extra burden for women in poverty.

Source: What Does Poverty Look Like? A Photo Contest Has Surprising Answers : Goats and Soda : NPR

Stunning!

How it feels to have your book suspended from a high school’s English curriculum.

Source: Ban Before Reading – The New York Times

An excerpt from our correspondent’s new book on where intelligence comes from — and why exposure to words as a child matters

Source: The 32-Million Word Gap – The Atlantic

Empathy from reading a story prompts helping another person.

Source: Empathy and Fiction | Psychology Today

“Can you play?”I observed the girl at my door cautiously. It was the summer of 1999; I was 7 years old and in need of a friend. Although my three older brothers let me join in on their games, I could only endure so many defeats in pingpong, basketball and Super Smash Bros. before I was ready to quit. So when my 5-year-old neighbor showed up at our door, I thought that maybe she — dark hair springing, T-shirt stained — could be the sister I’d always wished for.…

Source: The girl next door // News // Notre Dame Magazine // University of Notre Dame

Once they’ve grown up, African American children are more likely than their white counterparts to backslide into a lower economic group.

Source: How Black Middle-Class Kids Become Poor Adults