CYC 702 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Khan Academy, Maladjusted, Reading School

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Child and Youth Care
• Course: CYC 702
• Professor: Anne Black

Document Summary

Climbing standards of attending and graduating high school since the early 1900s. Dropout means a student who leaves school before graduation and completion of program; event dropout (withdraw within a certain time frame, ex. During a school year), status dropout (non-enrolled and without a diploma) Unmotivated, problems with school authorities, skip classes, married or pregnant, poor, family problems, drug/alcohol problems, colored, fallen behind grade level. Highest rates in students from non-english speaking families, highest in culture is indians and then latinos and african americans. Immigrants: latin america and asia especially, schools dropping bilingual education to. Exceptional students: emotional/behavioral disabilities, socially alienated, high rates. Lgbt: abuse from peers, bias from staff, leading to poor performance and withdrawal. Adjudicated youth: failure to return to school after release from custody, truancy and need for more support to get back to their grade level, learning disabilities, substance abuse.