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Article: A turn down the harbor with at-risk children.
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- Phi Delta Kappan
- Article date:
- December 1, 1997
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Mr. Meyer describes a cooperative project between California State University in Fresno and local school districts that enables 200 or more Liberal Studies students each semester to "give back to America" by providing one-on-one mentoring of at-risk children.
Children at risk of school failure can be helped. They can also be overlooked. Every day the most committed and most dedicated teachers watch helplessly as some of their students fall further behind. Harried administrators routinely confront small crises and countless demands on their time that keep the problems of at-risk children low on their "to do" lists. Parents of at-risk children are often very concerned, ...