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Peer reviewedWalker-Dalhouse, Doris – Young Children, 1993
Argues that, although the "at-risk" label when applied to African-American students is often appropriate, assumptions of intellectual deficiency attached to the phrase are mistaken. Socioeconomic factors are more likely determinants of the early reading difficulties encountered disproportionately by these students. Suggests strategies…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Black Students, Cooperative Learning, Cultural Awareness
