... times the term at-risk refers to internal factors within the student like low self-esteem, an external locus of control, or low educational aspirations (D"Imperio & Dubow, 2000; Hampson, Rahman, Brown, Taylor, Donaldson, 1998; Henderson, 1998; Smith & Carlson, 1997). An at-risk student today may be a student at the postsecondary, secondary, elementary, primary, or even preschool level of education. From the ... the individual, are divided into two categories in the literature: family and school (Benard, 1993, 1995; Brooks, 1994; Christiansen & Christiansen, 1997; Fox, 1994; Howard & Dry...

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