To alleviate poverty must cure foolishness first, and to help the poor must help them increase wisdom first. Educational poverty alleviation, as an important way to block the transmission of poverty from generation to generation, plays an irreplaceable and important role in targeted poverty alleviation. Through the analysis of the effectiveness and deficiencies of educational targeted poverty alleviation for the poor, it is found that these deficiencies exist in the current educational targeted poverty alleviation: the method is not targeted enough, the evaluation mechanism is not perfect, and the participant is deficient. We should give full play to the basic and guiding role of education in targeted poverty alleviation, and ensure the precision of poverty alleviation way by setting up the big data service platform of educational targeted poverty alleviation. In addition, we should improve the dynamic supervision and evaluation system of educational poverty alleviation, realize the timeliness of poverty alleviation, construct a pattern of educational targeted poverty alleviation with multiparticipant cooperation, promote the poverty-stricken population to get rid of poverty and block the transmission of poverty from generation to generation.