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A Framework for Understanding Poverty - A Cognitive Approach (Sixth Edition) Paperback – November 1, 2018

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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, Framework s premise 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 Framework 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 What began as a guide for educators to better understand their students is now a multifaceted, multidisciplinary set of tools and resources that are applicable across society. The book expands the integration of relationships across all boundaries. Gayle C. Manchin, Past President, National Association of State Boards of Education Dr. Payne s work allows me to navigate all classes particularly wealth, where the arts are highly valued. This is transformative in that it helps me provide my students with bridges to the people in my community who run, guide, and own the institutions and businesses. Grant Manhart, D.M., Professor of High Brass and Jazz Studies, Northern State University
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ aha! Process; Sixth Edition (November 1, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 286 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1948244187
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1948244183
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
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Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D. of Baytown, Texas has been a professional educator since 1972. She has been a secondary-school teacher and department chairperson, an elementary-school principal, a consultant, and a central-office administrator. The lessons learned during these years are the bedrock on which aha! Process, Inc. has been built.

Her first book, A Framework for Understanding Poverty, is a powerful tool for educators to use when teaching children from poverty. She has led hundreds of workshops and has worked with several thousand teachers and administrators, both nationally and internationally. Ruby Payne founded aha! Process, Inc. (formerly RFT Publishing Co.) in 1996 and serves as its president. In that capacity, she continues to consult and write.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Really good insights and takeaways from the author
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Enjoyed reading the book. Found it to be spot on and useful for working with kids in poverty and how to address specific issues and challenges in working with families. Excellent resource for teachers and advocates.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The definitive book on poverty culture. Must read!
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Do you have a heart for helping people? Do you teach or work in a high poverty area? This book is a must read for dealing with poverty culture. You will start to understand why the people you're working with make the decisions that they do, and you'll be in a much better place to help.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely a great book and author!!
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I read the third addition and now this updated one. It has very relevant material for me as a teacher in a Title 1 school.
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Vicki
5.0 out of 5 stars Eye Opening
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Very eye opening. I think all clergy and educators should read this book. Although it's written as a tool for these 2 professions, I think many could benefit from learning the language, attitudes, and thinking of those living in poverty. I found it fascinating.
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Malinda
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommend
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This is a great book. I wish the title was understanding financial mindsets. Poverty has such a negative connotation.

This book gave me a glimpse into behaviors of my family, coworkers, employees, board members, and so much more. If teachers had this knowledge they could transform students ability to learn! ❤️
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Great book for educators.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read
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As a newly hired teacher, I was given this book by the school district as mandatory reading. As a retired teacher now, I gifted the book to a new teacher. But I needed it recently to reference something in the book and had to purchase it. I saw the author at a teachers conference in Denver years ago and she is fantastic. You will not be disappointed. A must read for teachers who teach in underrepresented areas.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Excellent with Some Valid Criticisms
Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2021
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As a person who grew up poor and is taking graduate courses in literacy education, I have a few tips for readers of this book.

If you don't think about classism a lot, this book will be pretty eye opening. Ruby K. Payne's biggest claim to fame with this text is exposing the culture war in the classroom between middle class values perpetuated by the educational institutions on students from poor backgrounds. Behavioral expectations are different between the two, with poor folk mainly operating on what gets them by in the world versus middle class individualism being rewarded in the classroom. Any good conclusion from reading this work shouldn't take away the belief that middle class values need to be forced on poor students. That's the problem that's already happening and why Payne likely felt the need to write the book. Students from poor backgrounds need adequate support to achieve what their middle class peers can do because of the support structures already in place for them.

You need to know that Ruby K. Payne's main audience are middle class and upper class educators. Payne's lack of social justice education and training can be a glaring omission at times. I'd actually rather have preferred in her introductory chapters that she admit her lack of formal training in education and social justice than to "debunk" myths about how racism is tied to classism and poor education outcomes. Several of those claims, including what percent of taxes wealthy people pay, are outright falsehoods. For example in California there is a push away from remedial English courses because of the inherent language and culture biases against black and Latino families. Students put in remedial classes also have far lower rates of college success and obtaining their degrees. There's a lot of research to back this up not just at the CSU level, but with Pew research, the Public Policy Institute of California, and much of the research done within composition and reading theory research.

Payne hasn't changed her text about the "Language Gap" study which reinforces racist beliefs about how poor children (of any race) hear 32 million fewer words in their households by the time they are 4. Efforts to repeat the Word Gap study have not been successful, meaning the conclusions of the initial study were not scientific, and not factual.

I can see how Payne may have thought talking about race wasn't an effective way to reach her audience--she does try to push the classism issues from a cognitive perspective after all. But that doesn't dispel the fact that literacy education research over the past 50 years has proven many of her "soothing the white reader" facts to be blatant lies.

^That is a harsh criticism, but I still absolutely think this work will be a valuable read for educators and professionals who have to work with the public in the U.S. Just after you read it to get a sense of the hidden class rules in operation, maybe read works by Asao Inoue, Paolo Freire, and social critics of how racism functions in the classroom.
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