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Download full textWestfall, Amy; Pisapia, John – 1994
A study of resilient at-risk students was commissioned by the Metropolitan Educational Research Consortium to identify factors that students believed contributed to their academic success. Sixty-two resilient and academically successful at-risk students from six school divisions took part in in-depth interviews. Factors identified by students were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Coping, Disadvantaged Youth
