TY - JOUR
AU - Reed, Daisy F.
AB - At-Risk Students and Resiliency: Factors Contributing to Academic Success JAMES H. McMlLLAN and DAISY F. REED he increasingly high number of at-risk middle and academically? What can educators and other concerned T high school students-those in danger of dropping citizens do to foster these qualities in the 81 percent of at- out of school because of academic failure or other prob- risk students who do not succeed in school? We believe lems-is a major concern in education today. At-risk stu- that much can be learned from studying students who dents show persistent patterns of under-achievement and may be classified as at-risk but are resilient, that is, doing of social maladjustment in school, leading to their failure well in school despite the odds against them. In this arti- to finish high school. Indeed, the national dropout rate cle, we integrate existing literature with our own research averages about 25 percent (Sklarz 1989), and for minor- that examines resiliency, and then suggest a model to ex- plain resiliency that can be used to better understand why ities, that rate is higher, with an average of 30 percent these students have been successful and what can be done leaving school before they 
TI - At-Risk Students and Resiliency: Factors Contributing to Academic Success
JF - "The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas"
DO - 10.1080/00098655.1994.9956043
DA - 1994-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/at-risk-students-and-resiliency-factors-contributing-to-academic-b0aTj3eZcd
SP - 137
EP - 140
VL - 67
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -