Teachers learn lesson on poverty
By Amy F. Reiter
Monday September 18, 2006
Vanda Bidwell
Zyanna Craig, 7, left, Bryan Lake and Wangu Craig, 7, work on a shapes problem in class. Lake, a teacher at King Elementary School in Urbana, has gone through several discussions about Ruby Payne's book 'A Framework for Understanding Poverty.'
URBANA – For people who work in the Urbana school district, a book about the effects of poverty on children may be more popular than even "The Da Vinci Code."
The book, called "A Framework for Understanding Poverty," was written a decade ago by Ruby Payne, a former teacher and principal and now a worldwide speaker on child education. Her book, which defines class differences and gives methods for teaching impoverished children, has sold about a million copies.
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