Students At Risk
Students at risk are students who are subject to school failure because of characteristics of the student or inadequate responses to their needs by school, family, or community. Recently, the term at risk has often been replaced by the term placed at risk. This term emphasizes the fact that it is often an inadequate response to a child's needs by school, family, or community that places the child at risk. This web site is intended to help one or more to gain more knowledge about students at risk
1. Identifying and Advising Students at Risk of Deficient Study Skills: The project recognized that most learning involves independent study and that if students with ineffective study skills could be identified at an early stage and helped to improve their skills, fewer students would drop out of courses, or struggle because they do not know the best study methods to use.
2. Improving Achievement of Students at Risk Educational Failure: This electronic publication for secondary school principals and school management boards of trustees describes school systems who cater for students at risk of educational failure.
3. Materials for Helping Students at Risk: This site offers a variety of books and other materials to aid teachers in helping students at risk. It provides information on a number of subjects from the main focus of the book to the price of materials.
4. Providing Effective Schooling for Students at Risk: Students who are placed at risk due to poverty, race, ethnicity, language, or other factors are rarely well served by their schools. They often attend schools where they are tracked into substandard courses and programs holding low expectations for learning.
5. Why Is There a Need to Focus Especially on At Risk Students?: This places focus on the special implications of these proposals for the growing number of students for whom the traditional approaches to organizing and delivering instruction have not worked too well for those students most "at risk" of not completing or benefiting from their elementary and secondary school experiences.
Created by: Ethanie Laux for PSY 306; updated last 11/15/99.