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One study found that the main reasons students reported for dropping out included uninteresting classes (a lack of engagement with school life and classes), unmotivated (students typically said teachers did not demand enough or were not inspirational), personal reasons (had to get a job, became a parent, had to support or care for a family ...
The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, "chronically Inflexible" Children. New York: HarperCollins, 1998, 2014. Greene, Ross W. Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges Are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them. New York: Scribner, 2008, 2014.
Apathy in students, especially those in high school, is a growing problem. It causes teachers to lower standards in order to try to engage their students. [ 22 ] Apathy in schools is most easily recognized by students being unmotivated or, quite commonly, being motivated by outside factors.
About 23% of these adults, ranging from 18- to 43-years-old, said their financial motivation to remain childless boils down to two issues: valuing the financial freedom that comes from not having ...
Kids need parents to guide them and “help them cope with pent up feelings and emotions,” says Beresin, adding: “We want our kids to learn these techniques so they can use them themselves, so ...
Racial differences in how schools discipline students received new attention 10 years ago, during a national reckoning with racial injustice.. A decade later, change has been slow to materialize.
Student engagement occurs when "students make a psychological investment in learning. They try hard to learn what school offers. They take pride not simply in earning the formal indicators of success (grades and qualifications), but in understanding the material and incorporating or internalizing it in their lives."
An at-risk student is a term used in the United States to describe a student who requires temporary or ongoing intervention in order to succeed academically. [1] At risk students, sometimes referred to as at-risk youth or at-promise youth, [2] are also adolescents who are less likely to transition successfully into adulthood and achieve economic self-sufficiency. [3]