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School Failure

Pediatrics In Review, 1989
Numerous factors may contribute to a child's failure to learn. Certain causes of school failure, such as specific learning disabilities, mental retardation, sensory impairment, and chronic illness may be regarded as intrinsic characteristics of the child.
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Learning Disabilities and School Failure

Pediatrics in Review, 2011
After completing this article, readers should be able to:1. Articulate a systematic medical approach to the child who has school failure or suspected learning disability.2. Compare and contrast learning disability from other related conditions that may affect a child's school function.3.
Sheryl L, Rimrodt, Paul H, Lipkin
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School Failure and School Success

2014
School failure is important worldwide, often leading to under (or unsatisfactory) employment and lower quality of life, too frequently correlated with crime and drug abuse. The incidence varies hugely, up to 100 %, depending on country and subpopulation. The dropout rate in the United States is 10–50 %, depending on when, where, and how it is reckoned,
Peter W. Dowrick, Lindsey T. Back, Natalie Crespo Mills   +2 more
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Preventing School Failure and School Dropout

2020
This chapter focuses on strengths-based approaches to preventing school failure and dropout. The underlying assumption is that the most effective way to prevent school failure is to simultaneously enhance school completion by building social and emotional skills and enhancing both academic and vocational development. A tiered model is used to introduce
Robyn S. Hess, Cynthia E. Hazel
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Coping with school failure: Development of the school failure coping scale

European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1997
The present study describes the development of a self-report measures of coping with school failure for children and adolescents. A list of 56 items had been collected in the sample of 142 subjects aged from 9 to 18 years. The items were administered to 500 elementary and high school students.
Rijavec, Majda, Brdar, Ingrid
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Preventing failure at school

Children & Society, 1999
This paper considers early educational interventions aimed at preventing school failure. It begins with a typology of prevention and intervention, then goes on to consider four specific examples of preventive interventions all aimed at avoiding or alleviating academic failure at school. (1) The High Scope pre‐school programme for disadvantaged children
Kathy Sylva, Emma Evans
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