Getting To Know Your International Contact
My professional contact is from NEER - National Institute For Early Education Research, she is Professor Kimberly Brenneman, Assistant Research Professor National Institute for Early Education Research and the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science. My question to her was "What does research say about the effect of Poverty on Early Childhood Education? Professor Brenneman responded by sending me the following:
1. Statistics on Poverty and Its Effects:
Childhood poverty is associated with higher rates of academic failure or grade retention and higher incidences of school dropout
Adolescent parenthood is higher among poor teenagers
children raised in poverty have poorer employment records as adults
an increased likelihood of smoking and illegal drug use is associated with poverty
Within the US, poverty and minority status are confounded such that African American
children are at increased risk on two fronts. They are confronted with racism in many aspects of
their lives, and African Americans have lower incomes, about 60% of that of the country as a
whole and 33% of African-American children under the age of 18
lived in households below the poverty level compared to 10% of White children.
Within the US, poverty and minority status are confounded such that African American
children are at increased risk on two fronts. They are confronted with racism in many aspects of
their lives, and African Americans have lower incomes, about 60% of that of the country as a
whole and 33% of African-American children under the age of 18
lived in households below the poverty level compared to 10% of White children.
Not only are African American children more likely to experience poverty at some point while growing up,
they are also more likely than White children to experience long-term poverty.
they are also more likely than White children to experience long-term poverty.
This information confirmed to me based on research, what I always believed African Americans are more vulnerable to poverty.
Charlene,
ReplyDeleteI am so happy that you have made positive connections with someone that can give you good insight into early childhood issues. We work with children and families at such an early point in the child's life and poverty can continue much later into life. Have you thought about how we can make a difference in the effects of poverty well into a child's future?