In this visionary effort, students take the lead in reimagining public education for the twenty-first century, advocating for a more active, personalized, and relational approach to learningTwenty-first century youth are hungry for new ways to learn. Their world is global, mobile, and rich with opportunities previous generations couldn’t possibly have imagined. As they make clear in this book, the old standards of schooling no longer apply. In Kids on Earth

High Risk Children in Schools offers a way for psychologists and educators to see and talk about the growing population of "at-risk" children--those likely to fail at formal schooling--while helping to redefine the relationship between schools and families.Using systems theory and developmental psychology, the authors present a new framework for the study and education of children who are at-risk. This framework--the Contextual Systems Model--creates a dia...