In Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do About It, veteran educator and brain expert Eric Jensen takes an unflinching look at how poverty hurts children, families, and communities across the United States and demonstrates how schools can improve the academic achievement and life readiness of economically disadvantaged students.

Introduction -- Understanding the nature of poverty -- How poverty affects behavior and academic performance -- Embracing the mind-set of change -- Schoolwide success factors -- Classroom-level success factors -- Instructional light and magic.