The Human Equation: Seeing Students Behind the Statistics

The topic of student disengagement in schools across the nation is of growing concern. Often, this disengagement is described using data such as absenteeism, behavioral incidents, or low academic performance. However, this fails to consider the human element behind these numbers. At the core of this issue, lies a category of students that can be referred to as instructional bystanders: students who are either physically or emotionally detached from their learning environments, me...