Poverty

If Poverty & Financial Hardship Affect Cognitive Function, Then is the Opportunity School District a Good Idea?

Oct 3, 2016

If Poverty & Financial Hardship Affect Cognitive Function, Then is the Opportunity School District a Good Idea? The Opportunity School District is a plan by the Governor's Office in Georgia to take over "chronically failing" schools across the state. To be...

Poverty in Georgia and Its Effect on Student Learning

May 8, 2014

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published a story in which the writers connected the state of Georgia's new academic performance score card with poverty. In their article they reported that Georgia students in poor schools got lower grades than students in affluent...

Why No Mention of the Effect of Poverty on Georgia’s College and Career Ready Performance Index?

Apr 24, 2014

Georgia released a lot of data about every school in the state which is summarized by a score attained through the College and Career Ready Performance Index. When the results were released this week by John Barge, State Superintendent of Education, the focus was on...