Source: Reading Socrates on the streets: Offering education to people in poverty | USCatholic.org
Here’s a wonderful article by Notre Dame professors on their teaching of a great books course for guests at the Center for the Homeless. Such a great expression of the depth of this work.
For a growing child, deprivation and stress can become a kind of neurotoxin.
Source: What Poverty Does to the Young Brain – The New Yorker
Brookings expert Richard Reeves presents an in-depth examination on social mobility and equality in America, and what we can do to save the American Dream.
Source: Saving Horatio Alger: Equality, Opportunity, and the American Dream | Brookings Institution
An important report on inequality in the U.S.
Robert has been an incredible professor and person. He is an exemplar of community-based teaching.
After about a week of work, a project that involved multiple disciplines at Saint Joseph High School was revealed.
Source: St. Joseph High School students work on immigration mural
Asked to identify obstacles to student achievement, the best educators point to factors outside class.
Source: Poverty, family stress are thwarting student success, top teachers say – The Washington Post
What it’s like to be a DREAMer on campus.
Right now more than 40 percent of people in St. Joseph County are struggling to make ends meet, according to a new report by the United Way.
Source: WORKING POOR: Forty percent of people struggling to make ends meet | Local – WSBT.com
Poor kids who moved to neighborhoods with less poverty did much better than those who didn’t move.
Source: Where Poor Kids Grow Up Makes A Huge Difference : Planet Money : NPR
