Homeless students, students from poor families, single parents, and student with full-time jobs can not commit to school, because college would never be a priority for them (Nicole Robinson, 2004). According to Maslow hierarchy of people’s needs, of a person does not have a safe place to stay and a food to feed a family-how likely would he be motivated to achieve high grades and get new knowledge in a class? Minority students such as Hispanic students and other immigrant student might have struggles with English proficiency and that could be also determined as “at-risk” factor, even though Chen and Kaufman’s study (1997) (cited by Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1998) shows that it is rarely the case. Most legal immigrants are hard-working and ambitious so they are capable of learning the language and work for their goals. But still non-native speakers can experience all kinds of obstacles which prevent them from doing well at
Homeless students, students from poor families, single parents, and student with full-time jobs can not commit to school, because college would never be a priority for them (Nicole Robinson, 2004). According to Maslow hierarchy of people’s needs, of a person does not have a safe place to stay and a food to feed a family-how likely would he be motivated to achieve high grades and get new knowledge in a class? Minority students such as Hispanic students and other immigrant student might have struggles with English proficiency and that could be also determined as “at-risk” factor, even though Chen and Kaufman’s study (1997) (cited by Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1998) shows that it is rarely the case. Most legal immigrants are hard-working and ambitious so they are capable of learning the language and work for their goals. But still non-native speakers can experience all kinds of obstacles which prevent them from doing well at