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Clearly defines seven mindsets essential for reaching economically disadvantaged students and shares corresponding strategies for overcoming adversity and ensuring college and career readiness for all learners, regardless of socioeconomic status.

Describes the knowledge and skills educators need to recognize and combat the bias and inequity that undermine educational engagement for students experiencing poverty.

New Directions for Community Colleges. Winter 2018, Vol. 2018 Issue 184, p17-26.
The authors discuss the role community colleges play in alleviating poverty and how this role is reflected in institutional mission statements.

Veteran educator Jensen examines how poverty hurts children, families, and communities across the US and demonstrates how schools can improve the academic achievement and life readiness of economically disadvantaged students. Jensen argues that although chronic exposure to poverty can result in detrimental changes to the brain, the brain's ability to adapt from experience means that poor children can also experience emotional, social, and academic success.