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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Latino/a students"”.
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Higher education: understanding the identity and retention of Latino(a) students
… was to assess the attitudes of the undergraduate Latino(a) students currently enrolled at Rowan University during the 2012 spring semester. More specifically, the two-part study focused on how they identify as Latino(a), their experiences at Rowan as Latinos, their views on Latino(a) role models, …
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Testimonios of Latino/A Students in Hispanic Serving Institutions: Lessons for Community Colleges
… Northern California community college with eight Latino/a student’s and the utilization of their testimonios to bring awareness to their academic experiences, successes and needs as first-generation college students. A large majority of Latino/a students who do enroll in college begin at community …
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Reform Through a Student Lens: The Experience of Latino a Students in an International Baccalaureate Diploma Program in Chicago
<p>This dissertation is a study of Latinos participating in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program in Chicago. Phenomenological interview techniques were used to explore the experiences and perceptions of Latino students in IB. By looking at Latino/a students separately the study captured …
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Soy El Primero: First-Generation Latino/a College Students' Experiences of Acculturative Stress and Coping Response in College
First-generation Latino/a student enrollment in U.S. Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs) is increasing. However, first-generation Latino/a students' ability to persist and graduate from PWIs has been and continues to be a pressing concern. The climate of the PWI campus caters to the prevailing …
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School Counselors in Large Public High Schools: Roles and Responsibilities and Their Effects on Latinos/as A-G College Course Completion Rates
… and how they can have an effect on Latino/a students and their A-G college course requirement completion rates. Latinos/as students are the lowest academic achieving students in the nation among their peers and the lowest in enrolling in four-year colleges and universities (Ochoa, …
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Exploring culturally responsive mathematics instruction with Latino/a learners in elementary classrooms
… and socioeconomically diverse (CLSD) students. Two factors that support this assertion are the low achievement and high dropout rates of many CLSD students. Latino students, in particular, score among the lowest of all student groups and have the highest dropout rates. Research …
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<em>Pláticas, Reflexiones, y Resistencia</em>: Exploring How First-Generation Latino Males Leverage Community Cultural Wealth in Education-Based Doctoral Programs
<p>The Latino/a community is the largest ethnic minority group in the United States and continues to grow. Although enrollment in higher education is on the rise, Latino/a students complete their degrees at lower rates than their white counterparts. This disparity is further magnified when …
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The Impact of cultural and social capital on FTIC student persistence
… examines differences in college readiness students possess when they enter Urban Center University. This research also examines differences in the type and level of social capital students report activating in their first semester of college, primarily measured through students' sense of …
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Possessive Investment: California, 209 and the Reconstruction of Racist Educational *Policy
… to limit the access of African-American and Latino/a students to public institutions of higher education in the University of California (UC) system. Through examination of the policy's genesis to the final court decision declaring its constitutionality, the document seeks to identify the use …
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How Latinas’ views of campus climate and gender role expectations contribute to their persistence at a two-year Hispanic serving institution
… words of encouragement served to motivate students to persist and graduate. Additional prominent findings revealed that the perception regarding academic environment including the need for positive academic advising experiences, involvement in organizational memberships, particularly with …
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An Examination of Disproportionality in One School District Using a Response to Intervention Model
… or a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) for students who do not meet grade level academic standards or behavioral expectations. This study examined the presence of disproportionality among race/ethnicity, gender, and ELL status for students who received targeted and intensive interventions …
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A Phenomenological Case Study: The Law School Environment as Experienced by Academically Dismissed Black and Latina/o Law Students
… The disparate numbers of Black and Latina/o students in law school stems from a history of excluding these groups from legal education, in addition to system obstacles, including socioeconomic status, lower LSAT scores, and barriers to education. A long academic debate has asked why minority …
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A Conceptual Model on the Impact of Mattering, Sense of Belonging, Engagement/Involvement, and Socio-Academic Integrative Experiences on Community College Students’ Intent to Persist
… be a need to reexamine how interactions between students and the institution, and students and institutional agents are taking place, with the aim of identifying institutional practices that deleteriously or positively impact degree completion and thus guide colleges to develop action plans to …
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Pedagogy for Latino/a Newcomer Students: A Study of Four Secondary Social Studies Teachers in New York City Urban Newcomer Schools
… social studies education for newcomer Latino/a youth. I designed this multi-site, collective case study to examine the perspectives and decision making of four social studies teachers' enacted pedagogy for Latino/a newcomer students. I documented how social studies teachers (U.S. …
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Measuring the middle school concept: the status and effectiveness of middle school concept implementation in Illinois
… academic performance outcomes. Rates of students qualifying for free and reduced-price lunch, school district operating expenditure per pupil, racial/ethnic composition of schools’ students, and standardized academic testing performance data were all considered as related to schools’ …
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Pathways to School Success: An Examination of Perspectives of African American and Latino/a Low-income Students
… the perspectives of African American and Latino/a students from low-income families who are especially successful in an urban, public school to elicit and gain insights into factors that mediate their academic success, conditions and contexts that nurture these factors, and the process …
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Latino Academic Achievement: Impact of Individual, Family, School, Community and Immigration Factors
… social systems on the academic achievement of Latino students. More specifically, this study examines the influence and dynamic interaction of individual, family, school, community, and immigration factors on the academic achievement of Latino students through a secondary data analysis of the …