The Frontal Cortex : Poverty and the Brain - The Diigo Meta page

• 01 Oct 09
  

  Katherine Taylor

  "It's the story of one man's attempt to systematically disrupt the cycle of poverty, and fundamentally alter the nature of childhood in Harlem. Fixing the schools is only a small part of the solution: Canada realized that it was also crucial to change the typical parent-child interaction, and so he developed a Baby College where new parents are given lessons on how to speak to their child in the supermarket. In other words, poverty is a culture, a contagious way of life, and not something that can be fixed with smaller class size."

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  • Canada realized that it was also crucial to change the typical parent-child interaction, and so he developed a Baby College where new parents are given lessons on how to speak to their child in the supermarket. In other words, poverty is a culture, a contagious way of life, and not something that can be fixed with smaller class size.
  • One crucial finding is that "middle-class" parents are much more verbose than parents living in poverty
• 30 Nov 08
  

  Andrea Grant

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  Frank Colcord

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• 22 Nov 08
  

  Geekgirl 397

  there were four specific areas where the poorer children lagged most significantly: language; long-term memory; working memory; and cognitive control, the ability to resist obvious (but wrong) answers and find unexpected ones.

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• 18 Nov 08
  

  Ann Henderson

  Whatever It Takes, the new book by Paul Tough that profiles Geoffrey Canada and the Harlem Children's Zone.

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• 12 Nov 08
  

  Annette M

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  • In other words, poverty is a culture, a contagious way of life, and not something that can be fixed with smaller class size.
• 06 Nov 08
  

  Bob Cunningham

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  the story of one man's attempt to systematically disrupt the cycle of poverty, and fundamentally alter the nature of childhood in Harlem

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  Rudy Garns

  Tough also deftly summarizes much of the recent work done on the cognitive neuroscience of poverty, or how our brain is changed by the details of our upbringing. (One crucial finding is that "middle-class" parents are much more verbose than parents living in poverty. For instance, one study found that wealthier parents directed an average of 487 "utterances" towards to their child per hour. In contrast, homes with a parent on welfare averaged a mere 178 utterances per hour. This leads, over time, to dramatic differences in the vocabulary size of the child, which strongly correlates with IQ.). (The Frontal Cortex)

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