Disruptive Behavior in Organizational Context (From Understanding Troubled and Troubling Youth, P 272-289, 1990, Peter E Leone, ed. -- See NCJ-124182)

• NCJ Number: 124195
• Author(s): R B Everhart
• Date Published: 1990
• Length: 18 pages
• Sale Source: Sage Publications, Inc
• Publication Type: Report (Technical)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

Students who are educationally at risk are a growing proportion of the youth population due to demographic changes and the association of risk with low socioeconomic status; changes in schools and instructional strategies are needed if these students are to succeed during and after school.

Abstract

Although education has always been perceived as a means of personal and social betterment, increasing numbers of children have a complex and deep range of personal, social, and economic conditions that hinder their education. Students from poor families and from black, Hispanic, and American Indian families are particularly at risk. In the past, the schools have largely failed to adapt to many of the accommodations that student differences require. They have added new programs to serve these students, but have not made the organizational and procedural changes required for these programs to succeed. We must work to transform our schools through a series of small efforts which should include changes in teacher education, collaborative efforts by teachers, and instructional experiments designed by teachers themselves. 30 references.