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Defining the At-Risk Student: Conceptual and Theoretical Considerations.
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Garard, Darin – 1995
Educational researchers should expand their methodology to include the student's voice and to consider the impact of the student's environment when defining being "at-risk of failure" or "at-risk of dropping out of school." Current definitions of who is at-risk place the onus of at-riskness entirely within the student.…
Descriptors: Community Influence, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Influence