Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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I am a teacher who works in the inner city. Unfortunately many of the students have a lot of emotional problems. They come from dysfunctional families and it's not easy for them to come to school -- their focus is someplace else. Sometimes they have behavioral issues as a result of their emotional problems, and my biggest challenge is to find the key to reach that child who is very disruptive or very angry. Another challenge I face is that a lot of the children are not as prepared for school as they need to be. They come without a lot of literacy experience. They come into the classroom holding books upside down, or not knowing where the books start. They haven't had a lot of language; they haven't had the experience of being read to. So my job of getting them to read is a little bit harder.
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I am a teacher who works in the inner city. Unfortunately many of the students have a lot of emotional problems. They come from dysfunctional families and it's not easy for them to come to school -- their focus is someplace else. Sometimes they have behavioral issues as a result of their emotional problems, and my biggest challenge is to find the key to reach that child who is very disruptive or very angry. Another challenge I face is that a lot of the children are not as prepared for school as they need to be. They come without a lot of literacy experience. They come into the classroom holding books upside down, or not knowing where the books start. They haven't had a lot of language; they haven't had the experience of being read to. So my job of getting them to read is a little bit harder.