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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
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Taking Care of Risky Business.
Powell, Tammie; Taylor, Stephen – South Carolina Middle School Journal, 1994
American children do not bring uniform characteristics to the school setting. The at-risk student actually learns, behaves, and thinks differently from the student considered ideally suited to traditional programming. The poor "fit" between the at-risk students' natural characteristics and the expectations of the traditional school setting can be…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Style, Educationally Disadvantaged