Educating at-risk students
By: edited by Sam Stringfield and Deborah Land.
Contributors: Stringfield, Sam ed.; Land, Deborah, ed.; National Society for the Study of Education.
Series: One hundred-first yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education -- pt.2; Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education -- 101st, pt.2.
Publisher: NSSE; Distributed by University of Chicago Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Special education.; Risk perception.; Dropouts -- Prevention.; Student assistance programs.; Problem youth -- Education.; Juvenile delinquents -- Education.; School management and organization.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: value: Section one: Conditions of risk. The extent and consequences of risk in U.S. education; value: Resiliency among students at risk of academic failure; value: Issues in educating African American children and youth; value: Issues in educating Hispanic students; value: Section two: Educating at-risk students from preschool through high school. Educating preschool and kindergarten children at risk; value: The intentional school: effective elementary education for all children; value: Essential components and next steps for comprehensive whole school reform in high poverty middle schools; value: Promising solutions for the least productive American high schools; value: Section three: Looking beyond traditional practices for at-risk students. Involving families and communities in educating children and youth; value: Toward universal literary; value: Technology, education and at-risk students; value: Section four: systemic supports for improving at-risk schools. Title I: The evolution and effectiveness of compensatory education; value: New roles for career and technical preparation programs in educating at-risk students; value: Systemic supports for schools serving students placed at risk.