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This 3 page paper examines the curricular innovations and reforms which need to be examined as pertains to the at risk student. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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to work against those who live there. This cycle of distress only perpetuates more distress and this fallout even reaches the school systems in the area. The schools, originally, were
thought to be the one way that the minority could alter his or her life circumstances, but the schools and their programs have failed to achieve this goal. A curricular
innovation and reform is seen to be needed in order to address the educational needs of the at risk student. Rather than becoming a tightly knit and interwoven series of
programs which elevated and educated at the same time, these initial programs of the last thirty years or so have ended up so fragmented that nothing is achieved, and in
the end, all the surplus funds are siphoned away. School reforms became a building centered movement. In other words, if the state gave the ailing community a brand new school
building, all the problems would be solved. However, this only served to place a shiny bandage on the very deep wound of poverty. This approach to solving inequities and poor
performance by minorities has not worked. The point is that structural relationships, spawned by the race-connected practices and social class inequalities are the determinants of socioeconomic outcomes and
conditions of life in distressed communities(Principles for Education 2002). To meet the challenge of radically transforming distressed, underdeveloped urban neighborhoods," some experts state, "we must reconstruct the community
development movement and link it to school reform(Principles for Education 2002). One of the first steps, one would think, is to obtain and maintain some efficient level of organization, so
that all of the little programs are merged into one larger program aimed at transforming the community where the schools are located as well as the schools themselves. "American schools
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