Introduction

I hope this book provides educators with a resource for teaching and learning about poverty and its effect on children and families. In writing the book, I have drawn from my experience teaching graduate and undergraduate students in educational foundations courses at the State University of New York at New Paltz. When one of my students, an educator who teaches some of the poorest children in upstate New York, told our class, “I’ve become able to see my own students differently,” she gave me the push I needed to begin the project.