Stephen Bezruchka Universithy of Washington
on "The Effects of Health and Poverty on Education"
individual behavior change can effect life span, compared to whether or not you spent the 1st life in poverty, mother wellfare when pregnant, experiences of grandparnets
health is intergenerationally
instit of medicine shorter lives and poorer health report
die younger than other rich countries cigarette smoking in japan ih higher but their death rate is lower Japan has the best life expectancy
educational outcome has a lot to do with chance, parent support for example,
elisabeth Warren Massachusetts senator researched-
1970 2 parent 2 child home had more disposible income wiht 1 parent working than today with 2 parents working
since both parents are working, we have no time to parent,
john bolks studied orphans after wwII
kids need the same 2 people in front of their eyes for the first 2 years, if theres more they are insecure
90 percent of moms breast feed in Sri Lanka, but in our country we are less than 10% a 15 year old girl has a higher chance of reaching age 60 here than in US
Jack SHarkoff of harvard said if you are exposed to poverty in 1st year in life it's like you have a neurotoxin in you brain that affects your whole life.
stess of feeling behind,
profiles of
biomarkers
cortasol
blood pressure
hemoglobiin a1c
stratisfy by socio ecoonomic stattus
poorer people have more of these stressors
this starts very early life
poorer recipients of heart transplants reject the new heart more often and richer recipients
our country has the most poor for any of the rich countries- being poor is bad for your health and all of our countries overall health
US spends a lot of money on Health care (1/2 of all world money)
so much inequality in US that is harms us all,- inequality hinders economic growth- world bank- inequality = poorer health
2009 harvard study
If we had less inequality = to the inequality in other rich countries we would reduce deaths by 1/3
Japah had a 20 year finicial recession and while we layed of 1000's their bosses, managers,and ceos took pay cuts to allow workers to keep jobs, take care of each other, decrease inequality,
how much do we care for others, teller gosher ucberkely
Rich have little empathy, sharing is decreasing,
income gap related to education gap=inequlity
the spirit level by richard wilkinson and kate pickett
inequality destroys societies
1 in 9 black men in prison
we house 1/4 of all prisoners in world
we have some of the worlds highest rates in life expectency, math, literacy, homicides, prisonment, trust,drugs, social mobiltiy AND The highest income inequality
I got mine, you get yours, is killing our country
we got to: tell the people that we are dying off faster than other countries: learn from other countries Swaziland, Liberia, NewGuinea, and US (all no paid maternity leave, lack of parenting time)
Sweden= Full year of maternity leave at full pay, father gets 30 months, 2nd year is optional at 80% pay, 3rd year child gets inroled in Swedish operated daycare, where workers must have an advanced degree in PLAY- experts in socialization, US=no sex abuse and minimum wage,
The measure of a Nation by Howard Friedman
US has the most schooling 12.5 years, We spend the most $12,000 per student annually and have very low outcomes,
we pay teachers .94 % of GDP, general teachers were bottom 3rd of graduating class,
Sweden =teacher and surgeon get paid similarly
classroom activities
-ask students to graph top 25 countries in HEALTH OLYMPICS with events = various life expectencies issues
US is not in top 25
go to institute of Health matrix and evalutation web site
see maps on county maps, life expectency of women going down in 1/3 of us counties, students could rank states or counties for men, women, people of color, immagrents - figure out reasons for discrepencies
-show on a map
international students succeed here because of their very nurturing environments growing up in their first 1000 days of life.
Geoffrey Canada
Our Schools failing: Enough is Enough
TED Talks
banks, technology have all grown and changed, why haven't schools. banks decided to open up after people get home from work, opened up on Saturdays.
Why can't schools do this, have summer time classes since science says poor kids fall behind in the summer
first 3 years of brain development in infants so critical.
all kids need preschool, but not all places offer it.
state tests, give great data, but don't get scores back in time to do anything. all great data is null and void since it's too late to use it.
year round schooling would help us be more reactive and helpful
it's high stakes, today, all these kids we are loosing.
have to innovate
yes you will have failure, but keep on creating. charter schools are good grounds to be creative, not all will work,
we cannot wait another 50 years to get this right,
we have to spend money now as if our lives and safety and liberty is at stake. We spend trillions on war, but merely millions on education.
bill gates said simply 5 billion on education could make huge impact on leveling the playing field in education. Help schools be teachers, parents, and mentors, coaches.
you have to let kids know you refuse to let them fail.
support systems in place, and encouragement from many different sources.
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