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Native American students: blood quantum, identity, and educational success
Native American ancestors were fighting a war to maintain their relevance; today Natives are fighting another war, a war of self-existence. Studies of Native American identity and education are plentiful but studies of blood quantum and educational success are very scarce. This study explored …
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Code-Switching and Sentence Imitation by African-American Students
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What works? Teaching African American students in urban schools
<p>The academic achievement gap for African American students compared to their White counterparts has historically and currently remained significant. Many researchers have been prompted to address this issue by examining the practices utilized to teach African American students. The findings from …
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Mattering and marginality among African American students at Rowan University
… services, and in which of these dimensions students felt they mattered or were marginalized most. Further, this study sought to determine if there was relationship between the dimensions of the institutional environment. Lastly, the study aimed to find out if there was a statistical …
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Cultural Identity, Communication, and Cultural Reentry: Experiences of American Students
… Fairness</em>, which examined gender biases in American kindergarten through 12th grade classrooms, including the effects of the overwhelmingly-female faculties. At the National Education Association's 2002 Representative Assembly, members adopted a measure to "identify, recognize, recruit and …
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Relevant Activism: Contexts, Challenges, and Possibilities for Asian American Students
… how twelve undergraduate and graduate Asian American student activists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign experienced racialization; negotiated the expectations of external campus groups and institutional forces; and engaged the process of becoming ""Asian Americanized."" This …
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Experiences of Asian Indian American Students in US Undergraduate Medical Education
Asian Indian American (AIA) students are largely absent from the performance data and literature on medical student experiences in the United States. Masked by the variety of cultures aggregated under the broader Asian American label, institutions fail to recognize how experiences within the US …
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Vietnamese-American students at Midwestern Community College: a narrative inquiry study
… the academic and social journeys of Vietnamese-American students enrolled at Midwestern Community College, MWCC (a pseudonym). Additionally, the study explored how Vietnamese-American students are able to utilize heuristic knowledge to overcome barriers to their success, as identified by Padilla …
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Factors that Contribute to Success in College for Native American Students
<p>Native American college student retention is a major issue for colleges and universities today. Most studies completed up to this point have approached the issue of Native American retention by surveying or interviewing those students who have left school. This study uses a qualitative interview …
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African American Students' Perceptions of Teacher Care and Their Academic Achievement
Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006.
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Examining Changes in African American Students' Epistemic Agency as STEM Learners
… learning progressions for groups such as African Americans that have been traditionally excluded from science and STEM. This study argues that an equity oriented learning progression should be responsive to sociohistorical factors of epistemic injustice that dissociated African Americans …
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Factors that Influence the College Choice Process for African American Students
There has been a slight increase in African American enrollment in higher education in the 30 years since the passage of the Civil Rights Act. However, minority students are not represented in higher education in numbers proportionate to their representation in the general population. African …
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Korean American Students' Language and Literacy Practices at a Korean Language School
This study explores how Korean American young adolescent students engage in and construct meaning in Korean and English language and literacy practices at a Korean Language School (KLS) in the United States. From a sociocultural perspective, it focuses on the KLS, a social context where the …
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Students’ Perceptions And Experiences: African American Students In Band And Orchestra Programs
… mixed-methods study was to explore how African American students in a South Carolina metropolitan area perceived their experiences in band and orchestra at their middle school. Fifty-one sixth through eighth grade students responded to an inventory that measured students’ predisposition to …
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Expanding AP Enrollment for Hispanic and African American Students: Change Leadership Plan
<p>American education has historically failed to provide Hispanic and African American students with equal opportunities, evidenced by the long-standing underachievement of these students when compared to White counterparts. To provide all students with access to rigorous educational programs, many …
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Leadership that Fosters a Culture of High Achievement of African American Students
… culture of high student achievement of African American students. The sample included teachers and principals working in five elementary traditional theme schools with predominately African American populations in one urban school district in the Southeastern United States. The quantitative …
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Oral Narration of African American Students in General and Gifted Education Programs
… potential sources of underrepresentation African American children in gifted education programs. The differences in oral narration among 50 students in general and gifted education programs, grades two through five, were investigated. Students produced audiotaped oral narratives based on a …
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