A framework for understanding poverty: a cognitive approach for educators, policymakers, employers, and service providers

1. Resources, 'reality, ' and interventions : how they impact 'situated learning'

2. Language and story : how they impact thinking, school, and work

3. Hidden rules among classes : how they impact relationships with people different from you

4. The 'situated learning' reality of generational poverty : how it impacts navigation of one's life

5. Role models and emotional resources : how they provide for stability and success

6. Support systems and parents : how they impact the ability to do homework and to navigate school and work

7. Creating relationships : how and why one is motivated to learn and change

8. Discipline : how to manage personal behavior so one can 'win' in a given environment

9. Instruction and improving achievement : how to live in the abstract representational world of school and work

10. Poverty and intersectionality : how poverty intersects with race, health, immigration

11. Poverty and the brain : how poverty impacts brain development

12. The parents of children in poverty : how to understand where they're coming from

Appendix A. resources and interventions

Appendix B. What are the causes of poverty? : excerpt from Understanding and engaging under-resourced college students

Appendix C. What information does A framework for understanding poverty have that cannot be obtained easily from other sources?

Why do critics love to hate it and practitioners love to use it?

Appendix D. Poverty statistics

Appendix E. Where do we go from here? : how do communities develop intellectual ca[[ital and sustainability?

Appendix F. Study guide .