The Impact of Poverty on Education

Local and national education experts will gather at Loyola University Maryland for “The Impact of Poverty on Education,” the fifth event in the Baltimore Curriculum Project’s Leading Minds series. Panelists include Peter C. Murrell, Jr., Ph.D., professor of urban education at Loyola’s School of Education; Jane Quinn, vice president and director of the National Center for Community Schools at the Children’s Aid Society; and Heather B. Weiss, Ph.D., founder and director of the Harvard Family Research Project and senior research associate and lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Marc Steiner, host of “The Marc Steiner Show” on Baltimore’s WEAA 88.9 FM, will moderate the discussion. Part of an ongoing series of events designed to engage local stakeholders in public education in discussions of controversial topics that relate directly to improving K-12 education, this panel will consider why poverty has such a detrimental impact on academic achievement and what schools can do to mitigate that impact. The forum is co-hosted by Loyola's School of Education and Urbanite magazine.