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Children from low-income urban environments are often said to be "at risk." Yet most children in presumably high-risk situations do not exhibit significant problems or antisocial behaviors, and many are reasonably successful within the limited opportunity structures afforded them.

UW-Madison education professor Jeffrey Lewis documents African American children's positive attitudes toward learning as they participate in after-school programs in two low-income urban elementary schools.

Rather than focusing on students' perceived deficiencies or deficits, Lewis's research focuses on the questions, "What is it about these children that enables them to survive? What makes them apparently immune to the factors that negatively affect others?"

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