Poverty: Home
Helpful Links
A couple tips:
- Look for the School Report Cards
- Identify the Free and Reduced Lunch statistics
- Search for ethnicity, performance, graduation rates, and/or attendance rates
Database Links
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SIRS - BVSWSIRS provides articles, websites, videos, multimedia graphics, charts, maps, statistics, primary sources and government documents, hand-selected from thousands of national and international sources. This database is comprehensive and includes resources from all of the disciplines (content areas).
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EBSCO (Explora) - BVSWRich, reliable, general content, generated for student use in schools and libraries. High quality, scholarly, and verified articles, easily accessible for students.
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Opposing Viewpoints - BVSWUse this resource to find magazine, newspaper, and journal articles about controversial topics.
Assignment Information:
Poverty is more than people not having basic resources at a specific moment in time (food, shelter, etc). Living in poverty can impact people in a variety of ways in both the short term and long term.
Research the answers to the following questions and provide sources and examples with your responses.
What impact does poverty have on the education of kids?
You will compare the economic statistics for the following schools in Kansas: Wyandotte High School, Blue Valley Southwest, Osawatomie, and Shawnee Mission North High school. What percentages of kids receive free and reduced lunch? What percentage of kids met the state standard in reading, and math?
You get to determine how you want to present the information.
Using the data, you found what conclusions did you come up with relative to income and education.
Sources: You must use a minimum of 6 sources and cite them within the project as well as in an MLA works cited document.
