Yesenia Ruiz

Professor Mercado
113B
1 May 2016
Within my research, I will be talking about the connection between poverty and child
development. I will first start with an experimental data research that shows facts between the
bonds between child and parents. Next, I will research information about the Act of No Child
Left Behind enacted in 2001. Then I will research how poverty effects the language development
of a child and see the causes of these difficulties. The next thing I will research this problem in
the city of Los Angeles to narrow my research. Lastly, I will research new generations and how
they lack to keep up with the modern world. My research will help find the multiple problems
with the developmental parts of child and from this research.

Barr Brooke, Ashley. Family Socioeconomic status, family health, and changes in students
Math achievement across high school: A mediational model. Social Science and
Medicine 140 (2015):27-34. Print.8 April 2016.
Summary: This history article is about experiments being conducted to see the
relationship between students, there school behavior and there outside soundings.
For instance, there is an example on how a student that have ill parents are more
likely to not finish high school or college then other students with healthy family
members. This article informs about different situations a student might be going
through and it predicts its outcome. Hypotheses are formed, tested and observed
are where put into this article. They have controlled variables and independent
variables to see where the problem is starting.
Evaluations: This source is useful because it gives a more detailed situation. The
article is objective there is not emotional appeal (pathos) anywhere in the article,
it just has straight situations and outcomes. It is based on observations and
studies. The writers goal is to show the readers the effects of poor families and
how it effects students scores in mathematics. There article shows many charts in
order for the reader to have a better understanding of the score changes. They use
data and mathematics to see the effects and the results of a family under difficult
situations like poor health.
Reflection: This data will make for a good example of how poverty effects
students and parents. Poverty can make a family member go through health
problems which will affect the student and their studies. This article has helped
me understand more of the cause and effect part of poverty on high school
education. It helps me with the high school part of development. I can use this for

the end because my essay can start from when a child is a baby to a child
becoming a high schooled and see the constant changes poverty has of childrens
learning development.

Chappel, Sharon, and Melisa Cahnmann- Taylor. No Child Left With Crayons: The Imperative
Of Arts- Based Education and Research with Language Minority and other
minority Communities Review of Research in Education, 37.1 (2013): 243-268.
Summary: This article talks about the importance of art to the minority part of the
student body. The Act passed in 2001, No Child Left Behind was created to help
students stay focused on core classes, and art was not considered a core class. It
also talks about how the NCLB leaders are worried about the achievement gap
and believe it is caused by school locations, race, and language. Art eliminated
because of budget reduction; school cannot afford to give a student an art
education. The article explains how theorists want others to see the achievement
gap as an opportunity gap. Schools will a majority of poor students get less
education funds, which then causes the gap to spread wider. Article explains how
art is an essential class and should have a place in the core category with the rest
of the classes like math, science, English and history.
Evaluations: The author argues that art education shouldnt be taken away from
the schools in poverty because he believes that children express more through this
form or education. The writer tries to persuade the reader that art stands high with
the other subjects tough at public schools. Her work is more biased then objective
because she is trying to persuade the reader that art should not be seen as
unimportant. The writer explains how the education of art can help the gap and
also help will raising SAT scores. The writer states facts and backs up the claim
with research created by scholars. The research can be found at the end of the
article, there is a long bibliography.
Reflection: My topic is about poverty and child development and this article helps
as a clear example on how school districts do not invest a good amount of money
to afford fair education. This article speaks about the arts and how the lack of
money going in to these programs. Most of the time good amounts of money does
not get invested in low rated schools. These students living in poverty are not
given the proper tools in order to succeed. This article can be a strong example on
how poverty effects students educational development. This article has helped me
see how difficult problems can be for schools that are located in troubled
neighborhoods. Children do not get to excise there imagination because of the
lack of programs in their schools.

Roseberry-Mckibbin, Celeste. The Impact of Poverty and Homelessness on Childrens Oral

And Literate Language: Practical Implications for Service Delivery.
Presentation at ASHA Schools Conference Milwaukee, Wisconsin (2012): 1-14.
Print. 5 April 2016.
Summary: This scholar article studies a variety of situations a child going through
poverty can be going through. This article is a list of strategies and complex
situations many do not take under consideration about a child and what it goes
though. It also has a large sections on where it explains different exercises to help
a child advance on skills they will need in the future, skills other children already
have. For example, a parents talking to their child every day and telling highly
exciting or dramatic story themes to help a child feel motivated to go to school
and do their best. Towards the end it talks about how children in low- income
families do not possess as much books as middle class children. It also talks about
higher chances for low-income child to have a criminal record.
Evaluations: The article is useful because it is filled with studies that have been
conducted and researched by many other professionals. They provide facts about
the effects poverty has of a child. The writes goals are to prove that poverty does
create a negative change to a childs way of learning. This article helps that reader
see many difficult situations and what can be done to help a child get back to a
normal level of understanding. This report is bias because it does not show any
examples of how poverty has not affected a child in any way, it only focuses on
the damage it has done on the child.
Reflection: This article has examples from a caretaker not speaking the right
language, to a family not having enough picture books and how all these small
details affects a childs development. A child can grow in their imaginations with
picture books. I have also learned a list of things that children have experienced
like neighborhood violence or crowded housing conditions. A child can be
effected by any event that can happen around them.
Sastry Narayan Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, John Adams, Anne R. Pebley. The design of a
Multilevel survey of children, families, and communities: The Los Angele
Family and Neighborhood Survey. Social Science Research 35.4 1000-1024.
Print. 8 April 2016.
Summary: This article talked about the county of Los Angeles and how families
are being effected by poverty. The paper talks about opportunities family can take
advantage of. It also talks about how poor neighborhoods do not take an interest
in outside problems because they are too busy worrying about their money

troubles. This article shows how in Los Angeles poverty is effecting families and
residents. The paper backs up their claims by using events of the past in the 19
hundred.
Evaluations: This was a useful source because it gives information on the city on
Los Angeles. It explains about surveys and how the surveys data shows the
welfare records and there changed. The paper convinces the reader by using the
facts that have been provide by their research and experimentation with the
families in the neighborhoods. This source was useful because it gave me an idea
of the cities problem with poverty and how different situations are for every
family. It is not like the other articles that talks about the situation on poverty in a
broad way. The information in specific.
Reflection: This paper helps with understanding the Los Angeles area and what
people are doing in order to get out of a situation like poor education. This article
can help me with the idea of poverty in Los Angeles. I have learned that it is all
about numbers and how big an area is. The idea of more people there should be
more resources. There has to be a balance but the lack of money is not letting the
city get my resource for their communities which then effect their familys and
there students. That is the start of poverty. The Lack of resources make it hard for
family to get or stay out of poverty.

Sensenig, Vicotor. Giving Our Children A Fighting Chance: Poverty, Literacy, and the
Development of Information Capital: By Susan B. Neuman and Donna C. Celano.
Teachers College Press, New York, 2012. 176 Pp. ISBN 978-0-8077-53590(Hbk),
ISBN 978-0-8077-5358-3 (Pbk). International Review of Education,
59.5(2013):659-662.
Summary: This review speaks about how different forms of educations can be a
positive and negative thing. For example, neighbors in poverty do not have
enough money for computers in there libraries. Children living here do not
practice using technology, this holds them back while other students in other
places get to be a part of digital revolution. When William Penn Foundation
gets some computers in to the library students do not have the proper skills to
know how to use a computer, making them experts in random clicking. Teaching
students the fundamentals of a computer is like teaching a child how to read, if he
child does not know how to read and is given the book the child will enjoy
random flipping and will learn nothing. Students also need to be informed about
the importance of books just like technology. The article explains that simply

providing access to the internet does not help with the education gap. A students
need to have literacy skills to understand the information shown to them.
Evaluations: The writers goal is to point out the main ideas in the book Giving
our children a fighting chance: Poverty, literacy, and the development of
information capital by Susan B. Neuaman and Donna C. Celano. The book
explains the process of getting students in poverty to advance in there literary and
other skills is not an easy thing. It convinces the reader that the idea of simply
giving a library money for technology does not help much, there has to be people
to help students and others use these new computers. The student also has to
already have a basic level of literacy in order to use the computer for home work
or research. This review was helpful because I now know that an education gap
cannot be fixed so easily.

Reflection: This text help me see that providing money to a poor neighborhood is
not the only thing that needs to be done in order for those students to succeed.
They need teachers to help them a just to skills that are needed for them to be able
to use their resources. Students need to get in the practice of reading and
understanding what they are reading for them to get all the information that is
being given to them through books and the internet. This can help me know that
this is not an easy and short process helping students with their development in a
poor community. It will help me think more about the call of action in my essay.