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At-risk students defy the odds : overcoming barriers to educational success / Rosa Aronson.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author: Aronson, Rosa, 1953-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Education, 2001.
Series:Scarecrow education book.
Subjects:
Children with social disabilities > Education > United States > Case studies.
Academic achievement > United States > Case studies.
Academic achievement.
Children with social disabilities > Education.
United States.
Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Eunice Kennedy Shriver
  • 1. Success, Failure, and Educational Resilience in American Schools
  • The Great Equalizer
  • Educational Resilience
  • What Others Have Said About At-Risk Youth and Resilience
  • Stories of Adversity and Resilience
  • 2. Seven Stories of Resilience
  • Vince
  • Lori
  • Ray
  • Renee
  • Mark
  • Lynn
  • Mary
  • 3. Barriers to Success and Their Effects on Students at Risk
  • Adversity
  • Effects of Adversity
  • 4. Enabling Conditions and Coping Strategies
  • Enabling Conditions
  • Coping Strategies
  • 5. The Experience of Achievement
  • Awards and Recognitions
  • Parents' Reactions to Achievement
  • Effects of Achievement on the Respondents
  • Looking Back
  • Summary and Conclusion
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Link to Existing Research on Resilience
  • Discussion and Implications
  • Recommendations for Social Change
  • Looking Toward the Future.

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