Joy Woods
Lenora B. Fulani “The Development Line” Article Summary What keeps the poor, poor? This is one of the most fundamental questions in our nation and one of the questions answered in Lenora Fulani’s article, “The Development Line”. In this article, Fulani discusses the relationship between development, learning, and poverty, it’s relevance to Black and Latino communities, and how she co-founded a non-profit organization to help address these issues in poor and underprivileged children. In “The Development Line”, one thing the author makes clear is that better access to learning creates greater development in children (pg. 3). This learning is not only the kind that takes place in schools, but also the type that takes place during play and other enriching experiences outside of the home that lead to a greater understanding of the world and one’s place in it (pg. 11). Though it is unfortunate, poor children do not often have the chance to interact in the same way as their affluent neighbors. They attend different schools, live in different places, and have an altogether different world view from each other. The affluent are given better education and more experiences that …show more content…
For the majority of the history in the US, Blacks and Latinos were seen as second-class citizens (pg. 4). The fairly recent creation of new laws and rulings helped to bring these minorities to the same legal standing as their White counterparts, but did nothing to address the problem of bringing them to the mainstream of America (pg.3). This failure to connect these communities has caused a difference in their financial, and thus social, standing, creating a place where no development can take place. This disconnect allows Blacks and Latinos to continue in their cycles of poverty, while often, though not always, Whites continue in a cycle of
Lenora B. Fulani “The Development Line” Article Summary What keeps the poor, poor? This is one of the most fundamental questions in our nation and one of the questions answered in Lenora Fulani’s article, “The Development Line”. In this article, Fulani discusses the relationship between development, learning, and poverty, it’s relevance to Black and Latino communities, and how she co-founded a non-profit organization to help address these issues in poor and underprivileged children. In “The Development Line”, one thing the author makes clear is that better access to learning creates greater development in children (pg. 3). This learning is not only the kind that takes place in schools, but also the type that takes place during play and other enriching experiences outside of the home that lead to a greater understanding of the world and one’s place in it (pg. 11). Though it is unfortunate, poor children do not often have the chance to interact in the same way as their affluent neighbors. They attend different schools, live in different places, and have an altogether different world view from each other. The affluent are given better education and more experiences that …show more content…
For the majority of the history in the US, Blacks and Latinos were seen as second-class citizens (pg. 4). The fairly recent creation of new laws and rulings helped to bring these minorities to the same legal standing as their White counterparts, but did nothing to address the problem of bringing them to the mainstream of America (pg.3). This failure to connect these communities has caused a difference in their financial, and thus social, standing, creating a place where no development can take place. This disconnect allows Blacks and Latinos to continue in their cycles of poverty, while often, though not always, Whites continue in a cycle of