Non-education

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This paper looks at the many social issues and pressures that teenagers (and often younger children) need to face in a contemporary American school system.The problems examined are teen pregnancy, violence, gangsterism, drug and alcohol addiction, suicide and delinquency. The writer looks at different coping methods the students can use and focuses on the strategies taken by staff and teachers to assist the students. The paper also looks at how these social problems effect a child's educational experience.

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"In order for a teacher to overcome these deterrents to learning, he or she must show genuine caring for the student and get the student to become an active learner, rather than a passive observer who watches the teacher recite a lesson.

"There is much room for change in our school system, according to Lawrence Steinberg, author of Beyond the Classroom: Why School Reform Has Failed and What Parents Need to Do. In this work, Steinberg claims disengagement kicks in as early as 7th grade, when the possibility of the six critical problems taking hold of students becomes a reality."

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