Poverty, Education, and Success. How can poverty affect educational achievement? Teens growing up in poverty lead to various emotional and social problems, chronic stress, and learning experiences due to dramatic changes in mental and emotional memory, low grades, and behavioral problems in the classroom. How does poverty affect success? Anxiety, Malnutrition, and other factors affect the physical development and intelligence of children. Poverty can lead to stressful situations that affect students' motivation and success in school. Babies with warm coats may not get sick and have consequences. How are poverty and education are related? But just as education affects poverty, so does education. Thus, poverty has a direct impact on early childhood education. Moreover, poverty affects children on many levels, including physical, social, emotional, and spiritual problems. For example, Malnutrition and poor health affect the minds of children. Education is often called the fairest - n