
A Framework for Understanding Poverty
A Cognitive Approach (Sixth Edition)
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Ruby K. Payne
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New chapters on the brain, intersectionality, and parents. Simple, proven strategies that schools can start using today. With a view through an economic lens that has only become sharper and more focused since its initial publication in 1995, the premise owned by A Framework for Understanding Poverty is unchanged: Middle-class understandings of children and adults in poverty are often ill-suited for connecting with people in poverty and helping them build up the resources to rise out of poverty and into self-sufficiency.
Nearly 25 years and 1.8 million copies later, innumerable individuals and groups have used this book to create a groundswell of responses to the challenge of poverty. Educators, social service and healthcare workers, law enforcement and the judiciary, communities, employers, and individuals from all walks of life are engaged in supporting children and adults to build resources, patterns of learning, and behaviors that will help them exit poverty.
Expanded edition includes:
- Best practices teachers can use immediately to improve outcomes
- Deep dives into the mindsets of generational poverty, middle class, and wealth
- New case studies, exhaustive references, and an evolving understanding of poverty's intersections with race, health, immigration, and more.
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The Couple Next Door
- A Novel
- By: Shari Lapena
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all—a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora. But one night, when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is committed. Suspicion immediately lands on the parents. But the truth is a much more complicated story.
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Plot twist overload
- By RueRue on 10-12-16
By: Shari Lapena
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Piranesi
- By: Susanna Clarke
- Narrated by: Chiwetel Ejiofor
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead. But mostly, he is alone.
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Fascinating Social Study
- By Henry V on 02-26-21
By: Susanna Clarke
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- KeKe
- 01-04-23
Eye-opening
This book was quite eye-opening for me. I appreciated the biological and psychological perspective that she gave. I could see how exposure can dictate poverty by looking at military children and civilian children. If you remove the military benefits, the base pay at certain ranks would be below the poverty level, however the access to care, educational resources, professional activities and equitable housing , military children in the lower pay grades function as middle class.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-24-21
Review A Framework for Understanding Poverty
I Love the whole book. I will listen to it again. I recommend the book for all who particularly are serving their community. I gave it the high rating because it uses the holelistic approach. Let get all the community agencies involved in solving problems, including the residents.
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- Austin Melton
- 07-16-23
A book people for more well-to-do backgrounds should read
An excellent book for judges , attorneys, police, doctors, therapists, and social workers
A great book to understand the inner workings of one zone upbringing if they grew up in poverty as well
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- bigronald8
- 10-07-19
Understanding your Community.
Excellent information. Relevant to anyone teacbing in underprivileged communities. A must for those who teach.
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- Azrael
- 01-15-20
not bad
helpful for it's started purpose. the author reading the text makes sure you know exactly what is intended
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-14-23
Statistics
Fantastic work and great job tying the stats with your point. Definitely worth the cost.
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- Charlotte Mathis
- 10-14-21
Perspective Shift
As a Special Education Teacher, and church and community leader, I truly have been given a resource tool to help me understand the dynamics and complexities associated, not only with generational and situational poverty, but with how emotional poverty or limited emotional resources affect children, parents, marriages, individuals, teachers, and all humanity -- in some kind or type of poverty framework. This book is added to my resource library as a "go to" for a better mental, emotional, and behavioral understanding of children and adults (including my own self-care), who function in some framework of poverty. How I can implement new strategies and approaches, to serve others more effectively is my goal. AWESOME book🥰
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- Judy Nelson
- 09-26-22
Understanding Poverty
This was a very informative book. One of the examples that really stuck with me is when people at the school chipped in to purchase a refrigerator for a family. The family goes on vacation. they got the money by selling the refrigerator.
I wanted to read this book because my Son does stuff like that. He got behind on his rent and asked me for money because he had to buy new rims for his car. A stylish car with new rims trumped paying the rent.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-03-22
Read instead of listening
It is a great book. It is replete with facts and research-based information.
The performance is awful. The voice of the lady is annoying and rude.
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- D Gordon
- 04-06-25
Poverty in general
Read this for school and not personal. Very interesting piece , recommended for anyone looking into finances or class systems.
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