Boys in Poverty: A Framework for Understanding Dropout

by Ruby K. Payne

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Author: Ruby K. Payne

Publisher: Solution Tree

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ISBN 10: 1935542222
ISBN 13: 978-1935542223

Winner-Association of Educational Publishers 2011 Distinguished Achievement Award

Finalist-ForeWord Reviews 2010 Book of the Year Award

Boys in Poverty examines the relationship between poverty and dropout among males by examining a wide range of risk factors, including the absence of role models; the trauma of violence and abuse; peer pressures; issues of belonging and not belonging; culturally driven expectations that boys should work rather than finish school, and cognitive and developmental issues that affect boys learning. In addition, the authors look at community and school system factors, such as poor teachers, unfair or punitive discipline policies, and the absence of differentiated instruction. The book structures these issues into four strands, or categories, of development physical, emotional, cognitive, and social, examining how each is exacerbated by poverty. Additional chapters explore the special problems of sensitive, gay, gifted, and ADHD boys and issues of post-adolescent males beyond high school age. Within each of these areas of development, the authors offer concrete suggestions for keeping boys engaged with school and the learning process.

Review

Boys in Poverty is a crucial book for educators and our ongoing social debates. The authors prove that dealing with the educational needs of boys in poverty is a heroic task, one for which there are now turnaround strategies and practical tools that can seriously affect our work as teachers.... Payne and Slocumb are wise guides on this journey, and I am personally and professionally thankful to them for letting me walk with them down this difficult and ultimately hopeful road. --Michael Gurian, New York Times bestselling author of The Minds of Boys, The Wonder of Boys, and Boys and Girls Learn Differently

Ruby Payne and Paul Slocumb bring a depth of research and knowledge to their newest work. Using uncomplicated language and common sense, through the truth of their stories and the honesty of the situations they depict, they show how urgent it is that we confront this loss of human potential and describe the economic consequences of doing nothing. This book is a wake-up call that includes answers not just more questions and offers a positive approach to restoring hope and success for many boys. --Gayle Manchin, first lady of West Virginia

Native Americans continue to have the highest dropout rate, teen pregnancy, teen suicide, and unemployment rates among ethnic minorities. Boys in Poverty provides valuable tools and resources for schools and communities to help our native American male students break the cycle of poverty, graduate on time with their peers, and begin to fulfill their future stories. --Wendell Waukau, superintendent, Menominee Indian School District, Keshena Wisconsin

Ruby Payne and Paul Slocumb bring a depth of research and knowledge to their newest work. Using uncomplicated language and common sense, through the truth of their stories and the honesty of the situations they depict, they show how urgent it is that we confront this loss of human potential and describe the economic consequences of doing nothing. This book is a wake-up call that includes answers not just more questions and offers a positive approach to restoring hope and success for many boys. --Gayle Manchin, first lady of West Virginia

Native Americans continue to have the highest dropout rate, teen pregnancy, teen suicide, and unemployment rates among ethnic minorities. Boys in Poverty provides valuable tools and resources for schools and communities to help our native American male students break the cycle of poverty, graduate on time with their peers, and begin to fulfill their future stories. --Wendell Waukau, superintendent, Menominee Indian School District, Keshena Wisconsin

Ruby Payne and Paul Slocumb bring a depth of research and knowledge to their newest work. Using uncomplicated language and common sense, through the truth of their stories and the honesty of the situations they depict, they show how urgent it is that we confront this loss of human potential and describe the economic consequences of doing nothing. This book is a wake-up call that includes answers not just more questions and offers a positive approach to restoring hope and success for many boys. --Gayle Manchin, first lady of West Virginia

Native Americans continue to have the highest dropout rate, teen pregnancy, teen suicide, and unemployment rates among ethnic minorities. Boys in Poverty provides valuable tools and resources for schools and communities to help our native American male students break the cycle of poverty, graduate on time with their peers, and begin to fulfill their future stories. --Wendell Waukau, superintendent, Menominee Indian School District, Keshena Wisconsin

Ruby Payne and Paul Slocumb bring a depth of research and knowledge to their newest work. Using uncomplicated language and common sense, through the truth of their stories and the honesty of the situations they depic --Wendell Waukau, superintendent, Menominee Indian School District, Keshena Wisconsin

Ruby Payne and Paul Slocumb bring a depth of research and knowledge to their newest work. Using uncomplicated language and common sense, through the truth of their stories and the honesty of the situations they depict, they show how urgent it is that we confront this loss of human potential and describe the economic consequences of doing nothing. This book is a wake-up call that includes answers not just more questions and offers a positive approach to restoring hope and success for many boys. --Gayle Manchin, first lady of West Virginia

Native Americans continue to have the highest dropout rate, teen pregnancy, teen suicide, and unemployment rates among ethnic minorities. Boys in Poverty provides valuable tools and resources for schools and communities to help our native American male students break the cycle of poverty, graduate on time with their peers, and begin to fulfill their future stories. --Wendell Waukau, superintendent, Menominee Indian School District, Keshena Wisconsin

About the Author

Ruby K. Payne is an author, speaker, publisher, business owner, and career educator. She is an expert on the mindsets of economic classes and on crossing socioeconomic lines. Her work stems from more than thirty years of firsthand experience in the public schools as a high school department head, principal, and central office administrator of staff development. Ruby became known for helping students from all economic backgrounds achieve academic success. She received her B.A. from Goshen College in Indiana, earned a master s degree in English literature from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, and obtained her doctorate in educational leadership and policy from Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois. Ruby has written or co-authored more than a dozen books, with her foundational work, A Framework for Understanding Poverty (1996), having sold more than a million copies. As founder and president of aha! Process, Inc., she has published more than a hundred books, materials, and audiovisual products. Ruby travels extensively, presenting her work throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, China, India, and Slovakia, offering a variety of workshops based on her Framework book, together with strategies for successfully raising student achievement and overcoming economic class barriers. Ruby has a grown son, Tom. Paul D. Slocumb, Ed.D. has been a professional educator since 1966, serving as a secondary teacher, adjunct teacher at the university level, instructional supervisor, director of curriculum, campus administrator, and deputy superintendent for curriculum and instruction. Throughout his career, Paul has had the opportunity to work with students and families from a wide variety of backgrounds. These experiences came together in his book Hear Our Cry: Boys in Crisis (2004). After addressing curricular and instructional issues professionally for more than thirty years, he began observing and working more directly with the academic, social, and emotional issues of boys. Since 1997, he has been writing and consulting on the needs of students from poverty for aha! Process, Inc. He is co-author with Ruby Payne of Removing the Mask: Giftedness in Poverty (2000) and a past president of the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented. Paul received his B.A. and doctorate from the University of Houston, University Park, and earned a master s degree from Sam Houston University. Residing in the Houston area, he. Slocumb has two grown children, Eric and Schelli.