Maryland College Offers Training for Teachers of 'At Risk' Youths

By Ann Bradley

TOWSON, MD.--Although they come from all walks of life and teach different subjects and grade levels in a variety of school systems, the students enrolled in Goucher College's new master's program in education have one overriding trait in common: They are looking for help.

Help in reaching students who come from drug-abusing and dysfunctional families, who are being physically abused, who are violent, or who are too preoccupied, depressed, and unresponsive to succeed in school.

At Goucher, a small liberal-arts institution just outside of Baltimore, they are learning how to work with sociologically and psychologically disadvantaged students-children commonly referred to as being "at risk"...