[...] Tim Lauer pointed me in the direction of this column by one of my favorite writers, Paul Krugman, called Poverty Is Poison. In it he highlights, among many things, a new study that shows poverty’s negative effect on the brain development of children. It particularly impairs language development and memory. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Flarryferlazzo.edublogs.org%2F2008%2F02%2F24%2Fpoverty-is-poison%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Poverty+Is+Poison’; addthis_pub = ”; [...]
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[...] Tim Lauer pointed me in the direction of this column by one of my favorite writers, Paul Krugman, called Poverty Is Poison. In it he highlights, among many things, a new study that shows poverty’s negative effect on the brain development of children. It particularly impairs language development and memory. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Flarryferlazzo.edublogs.org%2F2008%2F02%2F24%2Fpoverty-is-poison%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Poverty+Is+Poison’; addthis_pub = ”; [...]
Posted on February 24, 2008 at 7:32 am.