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From At-Risk to Excellence: Research, Theory, and Principles for Practice

This report discusses the premises and principles that guide the work conducted by the Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence (CREDE). Drawn from a synthesis of multidisciplinary research that focuses on at-risk youth, the principles include joint productive activity, language and literacy development, contextualization, challenging activities, and instructional conversation. The author explains how these principles relate to the larger framework of sociocultural theory. 1997.

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