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Smith, R. C.; Lincoln, Carol A. – 1988
This document is an executive summary of a report asserting that the under-education of a body of students, known as "at-risk" youth, presents a crisis in American public education that has been overlooked by the educational reform movement of the 1980s. These youth are referred to as "at-risk" because they leave school…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Bilingual Education, Dropouts, Educational Change
