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Childhood Discipline Disparities for African American and Latinx Students
<p>African American and Latinx students are disproportionality impacted by punitive discipline models including suspensions, detention, and expulsions. This disproportionality removes students from the education setting creating adverse social emotional, academic, and economic outcomes. Students …
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Exploring the Intersectional Higher Education Experiences of Latinx Students
<p>The intersectional experiences of Latinx students in higher education have largely gone underexplored in the literature, particularly when it comes to Latino men. The current literature treats the experiences of the Latinx community as a monolith, when there are multiple potentially impactful …
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Parental Involvement, Academic Motivation, and Educational Attainment among Latinx Students
The present study examines how Latinx mothers’ and fathers’ involvement— specifically home-based involvement, school-based involvement, and parental aspirations relates to students’ academic motivation, engagement, college enrollment, and degree attainment. Additionally, it also explores how these …
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Borderlands, Translingualism, and Latinx Students in a Monolingual Community College
Typical research regarding Latinx students often begin with demographic data demonstrating the “browning” of America and how the emerging Latinx student population either affects higher education or how higher education still misunderstands Latinx, especially first- and second-generation migrants …
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The Not-So-Silent Period: Testimonios of Recently Arrived Latinx Students
… and amplify the experiences of recently arrived Latinx<sup>1</sup> students as interpreted through their <em>testimonios</em> in educational borderlands. Through increasingly xenophobic discourses around immigrants and their children (Pérez Huber, 2015), U.S. public schools have become entrenched …
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Challenging Dominant Mindset Ideologies: Transforming Teaching and Learning That Impact Latinx Students
… Sustaining Pedagogy (CSP), with a focus on how Latinx teachers' skills and cultural identity support practices that develop Latinx students' academic success. The study will explore how Latinx teachers can work towards disrupting power structures such as white supremacy ideologies embedded in …
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Mentoring Latinx Students through Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies at a Predominately White Institution
Latinx students are enrolling in four-year higher education institutions (HEIs) at a rapidly increasing rate. However, an alarmingly low number complete their degrees. Institutional barriers such as racism, language discrimination, cultural conflict, privilege of citizenship, and lack of role …
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California Community College Presidents’ Leadership: Serving Latinx Students at Hispanic Serving Institutions
… (HSI) to evaluate how CCCPs respond to Latinx student success gaps and support initiatives at their campuses. Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) have been more visible within community college literature, but what remains unclear is specifically how leaders at HSIs enact their …
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A Phenomenological Study Of The First Year College Experience Of First-generation Latinx Students
… college experience of four first-generation Latinx college students and how they made sense of that experience. The participants were all graduates of a private independent high school in a suburban community, and research was conducted through interviewing the participants. Analyzing their …
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“I’ll find a way to make my voice heard:” Transformational literacies of Latinx students
The number of Latinx students enrolling in U.S colleges and universities has increased over the last few years (Gramlich, 2017), despite the fact that institutions of higher education, especially those that are historically white, remain difficult and hostile spaces for Latinx, Black, Brown, …
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The influences driving decisions by Latinx students to enroll in upper-level high school STEM courses
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Understanding First-Generation Latinx Students' Experiences in a Predominantly White Private Institution: A Grounded Theory Study
<p>Latinx student enrollment in higher education institutions has increased over the years. Despite their increased number of enrollments, there is also an increase of Latinx first-generation students dropping out of higher education. Not only are they not earning a degree, but they are leaving …
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Unpacking Grit & Community Cultural Wealth: Examining the Academic Success of Undocumented Latinx Students in Higher Education
… system, only 220,000 and 225,000 undocumented students are enrolled across two-year and four-year institutions, representing 2% of all students (Casas et al., 2021). This relatively low number is attributed to the several challenges that undocumented students face in their matriculation and …
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Educators’ Perspectives Regarding the Impact of a College Readiness Program on Latinx Students in an Urban High School
… of improving college readiness for minority students in schools. College admission standards discussed include coursework, achievement test scores, and grade point averages. One of the many resources that the United States has not utilized in education reform movements is the power educators …
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Mindfulness as a Moderator of the Relation Between Acculturative Stress and Body Dissatisfaction/Eating Disorder Symptoms in Latinx Students
… disorder symptoms. Thirty-eight Latinx students were recruited from The City College of New York, CUNY, through the web-based survey participation pool SONA. Participants answered questions assessing their levels of acculturative stress, mindfulness, body dissatisfaction, and …
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Disparities in College Graduation Rates for African American and Latinx Students at a Small Midwestern College: A Case Study
… of the graduation rates of African American and Latinx students at College X. This qualitative case study utilized interviews with faculty, staff, and administrators, document analysis, and site observations to study a small Midwestern college, College X. Information was collected on policies, …
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Equity is more than recruitment and access: Supporting the success of Black and Latinx students in advanced placement coursework
… efforts to increase participation of Black and Latinx student populations in Advanced Placement classes. Although overall enrollments are increasing for Black and Latinx students, they are less successful than their White and Asian counterparts in achieving a three or better on AP exams. This …
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Place-Making by Black and Latinx Students in Predominantly White Institutions: Participatory Design and Meaning Making Through a Social Enterprise
<p>Black and Latinx male retention in post-secondary institutions, particularly predominantly white institutions (PWI), remains a critical social problem. Even though many PWIs set up structures to welcome and support Black and Latinx males, those structures are defined and created through dominant …
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The High School English Class and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: How do Black and Latinx Students Respond to Their Learning Experiences?
<p>The research explores Black and Latinx recent high school graduates' perceptions of their high school English classes and the value they placed on their experiences and their futures. This study aims to amplify the voices of students who have been dismissed from academic research on issues …
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Ripple of Hope: Understanding the Lived Experience and Academic Achievement of Latinx Students at Arrupe College and Dougherty Family College: A Case Study
… important entry points into higher education for Latinx and other underrepresented students is through community college. However, national completion rates for Latinx community college students have been trailing their white peers. This gap in academic achievement has prevailed since the 1990s. …
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