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Student Perspectives On Meaningful Adult Relationships In A Transfer School, Susan E. Collins Jun 2016

Student Perspectives On Meaningful Adult Relationships In A Transfer School, Susan E. Collins

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High school models that provide alternative ways for students who are overage and under-credited and have dropped out or disengaged from school to re-engage and graduate with a high school diploma have grown in New York City in the past ten years. The school model in this study conceives “Building Healthy Relationships” as one of five essential elements of the model and central to the re-engagement and success of students in school. Students in this model are paired with an advocate counselor who supports them while in school and towards graduation from high school. In this study, I interviewed thirteen …