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Educational Psychology

Conference

2023

•At-Risk •Educators •Mislabeling •Academically/Non-academically At-Promise •At-Potential

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At-Risk: The Habitual Watering Of One Word And The Tree That Has Grown., Anthony Edwards Mar 2023

At-Risk: The Habitual Watering Of One Word And The Tree That Has Grown., Anthony Edwards

National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference

The nation has been watering the term "at-risk" for decades and we are surprised that the term now has different connotations. We have deemed the term oftentimes in a stereotypical manner in believing that At-Risk is codifies to two or possibly three groups. We're not looking at the entire tree that has now grown and branched out into something much larger.