Student At Risk Essay

The “at–risk “adult students is a large group of students or prospective students with high chances of dropping out and not completing their degree, certificate program or just a single class. This term can be interpreted in many different ways. There are various qualifications of “at-risk” students such as students with academic issues, students with learning and other disabilities, student from immigrant families, students living with economic and social challenges and much more. (Nicole Robinson, 2004). Sometimes it is not possible to determine “at-risk” student in advance and only poor performance in a class would identify a student as “at-risk” one. Student nowadays come from all backgrounds, cultures and social classes. As an educational system in the USA has become more accessible and affordable (Financial aid eligibility, scholarships options, third-parties) –new, often first generation student gets a chance to go to college. Very …show more content…
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