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Download full textPallas, Aaron M. – 1989
Current approaches to educating at-risk students are the result of several shifts in thinking over the last 35 years, and a new way of defining at-risk students is needed to permit changes in school policy and practice to meet these students' needs. Cultural deprivation was originally considered the single cause of at-risk status. Subsequently,…
Descriptors: Community Influence, Definitions, Educational Change, Educational Trends
