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Responding To The Needs Of At-Risk Students In Poverty, Sueanne E. Mckinney, Charlene Flenner, Wendy Frazier, Lyndon Abrams

Essays in Education

A major challenge in the educational system today is improving the quality of instruction for urban students. Concentrated poverty, family instability, and early exposure to violence are but a few hardships typical of growing up in an urban environment. From an early age urban children are confronted with a series of obstacles in their attempts to meet academic, personal, and social success. Urban teachers need to be conscious of and understand the ecology of the environment that has a profound influence and impact on the urban child’s success in school. Additionally, urban teachers must respond to the needs of their …