Challenge to Care: Educating Teen Mothers.

Proweller, Amira

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ERIC Number: EJ654897

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Publication Date: 2001

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Challenge to Care: Educating Teen Mothers.

Proweller, Amira

Journal of At-Risk Issues, v7 n3 p18-24 Fall 2001

Explores the need to restore social and relational aspects to education for youth at risk. Anti-youth mass media discourses present negative images of pregnant and parenting teens. Labeled at risk, they are set up for academic and social failure. Describes an alternative public school serving the educational and social support needs of pregnant and parenting adolescents. (SM)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Early Parenthood, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students, Nontraditional Education, Pregnancy, Social Bias

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Language: English

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