Paul C Gorski

Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty

Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap
Herausgeber: Banks, James A

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This influential book describes the knowledge and skills teachers, school administrators, and other educators need to combat bias and inequity that deny students experiencing poverty the levels of educational access and opportunity their wealthier peers often enjoy. Written in an engaging, conversational style that makes complex concepts accessible and actionable, this book will help readers learn how to identify and eliminate even the subtlest inequities in their classrooms, schools, and districts. The Third Edition features extensive revisions based on the most recent research and lessons learned from the author’s professional development work. Enhancements include an extended summary of Gorski’s equity literacy framework; several new narrative case scenarios; a new section detailing how schools unintentionally “punish poverty”; a revised Poverty Awareness Quiz; and updated strategies throughout to assist today’s K–12 teachers, school administrators, counselors, and social workers. Book Features: * Offers a research-informed alternative to popular books about poverty and education that focus on adjusting something about students experiencing poverty rather than making classrooms and schools more equitable. * Describes evidence-based strategies and practices that strengthen equitable education access for students experiencing poverty. * Incorporates narrative case scenarios that help readers practice recognizing subtle bias and inequity in common viewpoints and programs. * Embraces an intersectional view of poverty and class by addressing how it interacts with race, gender, sexual orientation, and other dimensions of identity and experience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Teachers College Press
• 3rd edition
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780807783627
• ISBN-10: 0807783625
• Artikelnr.: 75862360

Autorenporträt

Paul Gorski is the founder of the Equity Literacy Institute and The Art of Reach. He is an author and educator who has worked with schools in 48 states and more than a dozen countries.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Series Foreword James A. Banks  xiii
Acknowledgments  xix
 1.  Introduction  1
A Place to Start: Important Shifts in Understanding  3
Definitions and Distinctions  8
The Remainder of the Book  12
Reflection Questions and Exercises  13
 2.  Imagining Equitable Classrooms and Schools for Students Experiencing
Poverty: An Equity Literacy Approach  14
Introducing Equity Literacy  20
Frameworks That Help Inform Equity Literacy  23
What the “Equity” Means in Equity Literacy  24
The Five Abilities of Equity Literacy  28
Equity Literacy Principles for Educators  33
Conclusion  43
Reflection Questions and Exercises  43
 3.  The Economic Injustice Mess We’re In: A Class and Poverty Primer  44
Poverty Awareness Quiz  44
An Introduction to Poverty, Wealth, and Economic Inequality  47
The Unequal Distribution of Poverty  54
Conclusion  62
Reflection Questions and Exercises  63
 4.  Ditching Deficit Ideology and Quitting Grit: Embracing a Structural
View of Poverty and Education  64
Poverty Attribution and the Importance of Ideology  64
The Dangers of Deficit Ideology  69
Meet Deficit Ideology’s Cousin, Grit  70
The Hope of Structural Ideology  73
An Exercise in Structural Framing and Language  75
Conclusion  77
Reflection Questions and Exercises  77
 5.  The Misunderstandings and Myths That Misdirect Equity Efforts in
Schools  79
Debunking the “Culture of Poverty” and Other Absurd Notions  81
A Hint of Truth? The Nature of Poverty Stereotyping  83
Misperceivers Are We: Questioning Common Stereotypes About Families
Experiencing Poverty  86
The Dangers of Stereotypes  96
Conclusion  97
Reflection Questions and Exercises  98
 6.  Class Inequities Beyond School Walls and Why They Matter at School  99
The Unlevel Playing Field of Poverty  101
Why the “Achievement Gap” Is Really an Opportunity Gap  114
Conclusion  115
Reflection Questions and Exercises  116
 7.  How Schools Punish Poverty: Learning to Recognize the Achievement—er,
Opportunity—Gap  117
How Schools Punish Poverty: The Great Unequalizer?  120
Opportunity Gaps, Neoliberal School Reform, and Attacking “DEI”  133
Conclusion  137
Reflection Questions and Exercises  138
 8.  Teaching Students Experiencing Poverty in Effective, Equitable, and
Even Data-Informed Ways: Curricular and Pedagogical Strategies  139
A Couple Caveats  139
Instructional Strategies That Work  140
Conclusion  162
Reflection Questions and Exercises  163
 9.  The Mother of All Strategies: Nurturing Equity-Informed Relationships
With Students and Families  164
Equity-Informed Relational Commitments  165
Conclusion  180
Reflection Questions and Exercises  180
10.  Cultivating School Change Through Equity Literacy: Commitments and
Strategies for School and District Leaders  182
Shaping Institutional Culture Around an Ethic of Equity  184
Cultivating Equity Literacy in Faculty and Staff  188
Creating Policies and Practices to Redistribute Access and Opportunity  193
Conclusion  197
Reflection Questions and Exercises  197
11.  Expanding Our Spheres of Influence: Advocating Change for the
Educational and Societal Good  199
Policy Advocacy for Educational Equity  200
Policy Advocacy for Societal Justice  204
Conclusion  206
Reflection Questions and Exercises  207
Conclusion  208
References  213
Index  245
About the Author  261