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The Use Of Alternative School Placements For Disciplinary Interventions With At-Risk Students, Tammie N. Feathers
The Use Of Alternative School Placements For Disciplinary Interventions With At-Risk Students, Tammie N. Feathers
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The purpose of this study was to investigate effective ways of providing educational services for at-risk students who are repeatedly placed out of the regular classroom into an alternative school. Characteristics of both settings were investigated in terms of meeting student needs to determine what ingredients might be missing from either or both settings that should be implemented to help these students succeed. The research was qualitative and used a case study design. Primary data were gathered from interviews with five students placed in an alternative school setting and interviews with teachers and administrators in both the regular school and …