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Schooling Students Placed at Risk: Research, Policy, and Practice in the Education of Poor and Minority Adolescents

Book by Mavis G. Sanders; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000

Subjects:

Minorities--Education (Secondary)--United States, Socially Handicapped Students--Education (Secondary)--United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...for providing a viable alternative for high schools that want to provide all students with access to a college...grounds for less motivated students. Schools loathe to eliminate...either accelerated or at-risk students , and in the process...
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A School for Healing: Alternative Strategies for Teaching At-Risk Students

Book by Rosa L. Kennedy, Jerome H. Morton; Peter Lang, 1999

Subjects:

Alternative Schools--United States--Case Studies, High School Dropouts--Education--United States--Case Studies, Socially Handicapped Youth--Education--United States--Case Studies

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...years, I wonder if some of that pattern doesnt affect my schooling now. During my first four years of school, I spent the first...Resource is a classroom where special help is offered to slower students. There were two teachers who used to argue over whether I...
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Staying after School: At-Risk Students in a Compensatory Education Program

Book by Bram A. Hamovitch; Praeger Publishers, 1997

Subjects:

Compensatory Education--United States, Socially Handicapped Children--Education--United States

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...bind the staff and the students to this mainstream...S. culture. Most students see themselves as benefiting...Springfield who adhere to alternative conceptions about how...links success with schooling. This is likely related...staff. They have no alternative language or context...
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Adult Students "At-Risk": Culture Bias in Higher Education

Book by Timothy William Quinnan; Bergin & Garvey, 1997

Subjects:

Adult Education--United States, Age Discrimination--United States, Critical Theory, Education, Higher--United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Bowles S., and H. Gintis. 1976 . Schooling in Capitalist America . New York: Basic Books. Boyer E...Carnegie Commission. 1973 . Toward a Learning Society: Alternative Channels to Life, Work, and Service . New York: McGraw...
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Rethinking Middle Years: Early Adolescents, Schooling and Digital Culture

Book by Victoria Carrington; Allen & Unwin, 2006

Subjects:

Middle School Students--Australia--Psychology, Middle Schools--Australia, Technology And Children--Australia

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...others still, it may focus on the provision of alternative modes of education for at-risk students or the implementation of a shared program...articulation of the suite of knowledge and skills students will require for participation in knowledge...

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Enhancing Mathematics Teaching for At-Risk Students: Influences of a Teaching Experience in Alternative High School

Journal article by Thea K. Dunn; Journal of Instructional Psychology, Vol. 31, 2004

Subjects:

Alternative schools--Research, Mathematics--Research, Mathematics--Study and teaching, Teaching--Research

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...experience at the alternative high school, and at-risk students; and...copies of student assignments...experience in an alternative high school...perceptions of at-risk students and promotes...response to a student population...at-risk students revealed...
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Urban American Indian Students in a Nonpunitive Alternative High School

Journal article by Rhonda B. Jeffries, Mary Hollowell, Tamara Powell; American Secondary Education, Vol. 32, 2004

Subjects:

Alternative education, Milwaukee Wisconsin, Native North Americans, Native education, Secondary school students

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...a-school students often stay...primarily at-risk youth (Maran...defining an alternative public school...alternative schooling and is a veteran...schools for at-risk youth cannot...3000-4000 students. The disadvantages...obvious. Students may feel overwhelmed...the ideal student population for an alternative school is...
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Culturally Responsive Classrooms for Culturally Diverse Students with and at Risk for Disabilities

Journal article by Gwendolyn Cartledge, Lefki Kourea; Exceptional Children, Vol. 74, 2008

Subjects:

High risk students--Economic aspects, High risk students--Social aspects, Intercultural education--Services, Minority students--Economic aspects, Minority students--Social aspects, Multicultural education--Services, Special education--Demographic aspects, Special education--Services, Special education--Social aspects

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...disabilities for these students. The sense of urgency...dropout rate of all students, high levels of poverty...importance of reducing these risks and increasing student academic achievement...school failure for CLD students is to identify academic and behavioral risk markers as early as...begin their formal schooling behind their more affluent...
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Status of Students and Balmitras in the Alternative and Innovative Education System

Journal article by R. C. Patel, Kashyapi Awasthi; International Forum of Teaching and Studies, Vol. 3, 2007

Subjects:

Alternative education, Elementary education, Learning, Research methodology, Schools, Standardized tests, Students, Teaching, Working conditions

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Status of Students and Balmitras in the Alternative and Innovative Education...through a few years of schooling without learning very...The Alternative Schooling system (AS) under...Students in Alternative Schooling System Objectives...
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Intellectual Indignation: Getting at the Roots of Student Resistance in an Alternative High School Program

Journal article by Dia N.R. Sekayi; Education, Vol. 122, 2001

Subjects:

Alternative education--Analysis, High schools--Study and teaching, Students--Psychological aspects

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...expressed by the students; a particular...addresses student resistance...structure of schooling; particularly...experienced in an alternative high school...teachers of at risk students...1982). Alternative schools for...secondary students. The Urban...Coping with student resistance...city public schooling. Youth and...instruction for at-risk students...

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The Effects of Home Microsystem Risk Factors and School Microsystem Protective Factors on Student Academic Performance and Affective Investment in Schooling

Magazine article by Natasha K. Bowen, Gary L. Bowen; Social Work in Education, Vol. 20, October 1998

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Microsystem Risk Factors and...Factors on Student Academic Performance...Investment in Schooling by Natasha...that foster students educational...providing students with suggestions...achieving student in a predominantly...the three risk categories...accumulation of risks has a deleterious...of the home risk factors...of female students. In spite...support for student performance...
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Engineering for At-Risk Students

Magazine article by Gary Stager; Curriculum Administrator, Vol. 36, October 2000

Subjects:

Alternative education--Analysis, Educators--Conduct of life, Maine--Education, Papert, Seymour--Conduct of life, Underachievers--Education

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...ENGINEERING FOR AT-RISK STUDENTS by GARY...constructionist alternative learning environment...area classes allow students to make connections...by traditional schooling. Students have the time to...learning process. Students are encouraged...classroom. One student thought to be particularly...
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Developmental Assets: a Prevention Framework for Students Considered at Risk

Magazine article by Oliver W. Edwards, Vincent E. Mumford, M. Ann Shillingford, Rut Serra-Roldan; Children & Schools, Vol. 29, July 2007

Subjects:

Behavior, Children & youth, Social work, Social workers, Students

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...considered at risk necessitate...of both the students and their environments...determine whether a student is considered...interactions among the student, home, school...result in high-risk behaviors and...factors affecting students lives systemically...to help all students, but particularly...considered at risk of school failure...mapping offen an alternative and positive...
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Delivering the Promise to 9th Graders: One City's Experiment in Single-Grade Schooling Proves Rewarding for Staff and Students

Magazine article by Margaret May Walsh; School Administrator, Vol. 3, March 2002

Subjects:

Alexandria, Virginia--Social policy, Education--Methodology, Ninth grade (Education)--Management, School management and organization--Analysis

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...structures model for the students the equal opportunities...social workers, nurse, alternative programs coordinator...psychologist to discuss students who are referred to...is placed on the at-risk list for whatever reason...the progress of the student throughout the year. We then help these students make the transition...
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The Portfolio as a Strengths-based Intervention to Empower Chronically Disruptive Students in an Alternative School

Magazine article by Tracy Carpenter-Aeby, P. David Kurtz; Children & Schools, Vol. 22, October 2000

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Disruptive Students in an Alternative School by Tracy Carpenter...that the number of at-risk, disruptive students...for alternative school students to change their self...through the portfolio students demonstrate their new...chronically disruptive students, to foster recognition of student strengths, and to promote...

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Charter Schools Target At-Risk Kids: 5 Programs Get Board's Approval

Newspaper article by Susan Ferrechio; The Washington Times, August 15, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...schools target at-risk kids: 5 programs...conduct, letting students learn at their...methods of teaching students - and they are...basis, with each student receiving between...skim off its best students from the system...NEW FACES OF SCHOOLING THESE ARE THE FIVE...Road School and Alternative Learning Center...
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Home-School Funding May Drop

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), June 19, 2006

Subjects:

Home schooling

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...students attending private alternative programs through referrals...districts, to some risk," he said. Praus...accountable for and make sure students took required Oregon...HomeSource lost nearly 90 students from two districts...would agree to release students only for what they considered...any home-schooled student, as traditionally had...
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Extracurricular Activities on Rise

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 3, 2007

Subjects:

Home schooling

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...forward and take a risk. Home-schoolers...continuing home-schooling because of the...where the home-schooling can-do spirit...need to construct alternatives to the public school...a home-school alternative for, which is...More than 5,000 students participate in...estimates, home-schooling itself is growing...
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Conant's 'Social Dynamite' Explodes in New Dropout Study

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 24, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...and some minority students. "Almost 45 years...the district has alternative schooling plans and dozens...helping kids at risk of dropping out...of District 211 students go on to college...achievement while students are in school...
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Letters in the Editor's Mailbag

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), July 28, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the continuing risk posed to people...Child Left Behind, alternative schools, charter schools and home schooling. All are attempts...keep sending many students ahead to the next...could help all students: Scrap the current...in which we move students from kindergarten...of Level 1, a student is required to...

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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...advantages enabled it strike with less risk to its forces. Negotiations in the Middle...Nations to act forcefully against Iraq or risk becoming "irrelevant." In November the...of mortgages, which both had hidden the risk involved in such mortgages and distributed...

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