STUDY GUIDE — CHAPTER 4: WHAT SOCIAL PROBLEMS AFFECT TODAY’S STUDENTS?

Completing this study guide will help you prepare for the major topic areas on an exam; however, it does not cover every piece of information found in the chapter or the test questions.

1. What does the term at risk refer to?

2. Name the major social problems affecting education.

3. Discuss the relationship between poverty and other factors which might cause a student to be considered “at risk”?

4. Discuss the Comer model and its relationship to schools providing support for children at risk.

5. What are some of the things that principals and teachers can do to reduce the incidence of violence?

6. List the major reasons students give for dropping out.

7. Explain why teachers need to know about the problems of homelessness.

8. What can Ruby Payne’s work contribute to help teachers understand the pervasiveness of poverty?