(NAME-MCE) Effective Practices for Engaging At-Risk Youth in Service Released Just in Time for G

[robert simmons]

What do we mean by at-risk students?  Toward the end of the blurb about this book, there seems to some assertion that at-risk and "youth with diverse experiences and backgrounds" are the same.  Are we headed into a deficit perspective with this type of language?  

Robert Simmons
Edchange.com

 

> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 13:46:15 -0400
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> Subject: (NAME-MCE) Effective Practices for Engaging At-Risk Youth in	Service Released Just in Time for Global Youth Service Day 2008
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> Effective Practices for Engaging At-Risk Youth in Service Released Just
> in Time for Global Youth Service Day 2008
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> Youth Service America announces a new effective practices publication
> entitled Effective Practices for Engaging At-Risk Youth in Service. The
> guide is designed to provide an overview of the underlying theory and
> effective practices for engaging at-risk youth in service by examining
> the roles young people played - and can play - in serving their
> communities. The audiences for this publication are public officials,
> youth service and service-learning practitioners and teachers,
> researchers and others whose mission is to plan and implement community
> service programs for youth with diverse experiences and backgrounds. 
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