After the At-Risk Label: Reorienting Educational Policy and Practice

by Keffrelyn Brown and Keffrelyn D. Brown

This book examines how the use of the "at-risk" category and label creates problems for students and teachers. Drawing from research across various education sites, the author illustrates how educators recognize the label's potential to redress issues of equity, but warns that it can also stigmatize the students so labeled. Brown explores how the labeling and subsequent practices by teachers and schools actually affect students, such as classifying...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807757012
• ISBN13: 9780807757017
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"