Poverty, family stress are thwarting student success, top teachers say, By Lyndsey Layton, May 19, 2015, Washington Post: “The greatest barriers to school success for K-12 students have little to do with anything that goes on in the classroom, according to the nation’s top teachers: It is family stress, followed by poverty, and learning and psychological problems. Those were the factors named in a survey of the 2015 state Teachers of the Year, top educators selected annually in every U.S. state and jurisdictions such as the District of Columbia and Guam…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty