This final work of postgraduate studies of educology is commited to the analysis of learning difficulties between children in the at-risk group both in the city and country schools in Lithuania. The goals of this work are to analyse scientific literature (pedagogical, psychological and sociological) about children at-risk and their learning difficulties, to complete practical research of these difficulties – to carry out practical survey (inquiry) about learning difficulties both in schools which are in the city and in the country, to analyse empirical data of survey (inquiry), to give conclusions and recommendations. The main scientifc methods which were used to complete this work were analysis of scientific literature and other documents (legal documents which describe status of children in the at-risk group). Also an empirical method - inquiry of children and their teachers – was used. Answers to the questions of this inquiry were processed with the help of computer programmes SPSS_10 and MS Excel. It is necessary to mention that the main results of this work are that it gives broad description of children in the at-risk group, describe their individual qualities, measure not attending of school as one of the most important pedagogical and psychological problems of children in the at-risk group, according to the statistical data describes a degree of this problem and also gives recommendations how to solve this problem. The work also gives analysis of influence of the... [to full text]