As I was reading the Purceil-Gates piece, I went through a lot of emotions. I was mainly upset when Jenny said that, regarding how to read, “some people think it’s easy… but it ain’t.” That just broke my heart. Why is it hat so many of those in a lower socioeconomic status lack these resources to improve and get a better life? Why is it that these city schools that truly need exceptional teachers, really don’t seem to make the impact they need to, or to push the students like they need to? And the public then dares to blame these people on “not trying to better themselves” and “just skating by” when it truly does not seem to be their faults, at least not in the case of those like Jenny and Donny. My question is how do we begin to address this issue of literacy in those of a lower socioeconomic status, like the ones living in the rough areas of the city?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As I was reading the Purceil-Gates piece, I went through a lot of emotions. I was mainly upset when Jenny said that, regarding how to read, “some people think it’s easy… but it ain’t.” That just broke my heart. Why is it hat so many of those in a lower socioeconomic status lack these resources … Continue reading “Is there a way to address the disparity in literacy due to socioeconomic status?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}