Only Effective Teachers and Principals Can Save the Lives of Children in Poverty We Face an Enormous and...

We Face an Enormous and Crucial Task.

The very title, “Educating Children in Poverty,” here presents what one could easily think of as a daunting or impossible vision. When one considers the large numbers of children in poverty in America as well as internationally, the count feels overwhelming: fifteen million children live in poverty in our country.¹