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Showing 1 to 20 of 292 for “"Minority Students"”.
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Organizational Alienation and Minority Students
… study investigated levels of alienation between minority and non minority college students. Quantitative and qualitative data was collected through a survey instrument and interviews in two different academic contexts, a public state university and a private, Catholic university in …
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Educational Leaders Serving Language Minority Students (1965-2001)
… that affected education for language</p><p>minority students. The research starts with a historical overview of the foundation of the</p><p>United States and the education of the non-English speaking population. It examines the</p><p>conditions that led to the first Bilingual Education Act …
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Cultural Intersections: White Teachers and Their Racial Minority Students
<p>Racial minority students in American public schools learn in environments that are antithetical to their cultural and familial backgrounds. Because the majority of the teacher workforce is comprised of white teachers, the institution of school places racial minority students at risk. These …
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Can Gentrification Improve Education for Low-Income Minority Students?
… quality education in Newark for low-income minority students, they are instead creating a two-tier school system, where some students are provided adequate education, and some are not.</p>
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Minority Students' Transition Experiences at a Predominantly White Institution
… of transition. In one such model, first year students experience transition in four domains; academic, social, personal-emotional, and attachment (Baker & Siryk, 1999). Past studies have explored transition from the perspective of majority versus minority student experiences (Allen, 1992; …
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Comparison of quiet and outgoing language minority students through journal writing
<p>Outgoing students have the advantage over quiet students in oral class participation. Our problem was to determine whether this relationship was the same in the medium of writing by studying differences in quantity and quality of writing between a quiet and an outgoing group.</p>
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Comparison of quiet and outgoing language minority students through journal writing
<p>Outgoing students have the advantage over quiet students in oral class participation. Our problem was to determine whether this relationship was the same in the medium of writing by studying differences in quantity and quality of writing between a quiet and an outgoing group.</p>
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A TALE OF TWO GROUPS: DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MINORITY STUDENTS AND NON-MINORITY STUDENTS IN THEIR PREDISPOSITION TO AND ENGAGEMENT WITH DIVERSE PEERS AT A PREDOMINANTLY WHITE INSTITUTION
… of this study was to examine the extent to which minority students and non-minority students differ in their predispositions to engage in campus-based diversity activities upon entering college and engagement with diverse college peers during college. These ethnicity-based interactional …
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Teacher’s Attitudes and Willingness to Refer Sexual Minority Students to Special Education
<p>Research shows that cultural minority students are over-represented in special education services based on teacher bias and attitudes towards these cultural minority students. A cultural minority that has not been as widely researched is the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning …
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TOWARD A DATA LITERACY ASSESSMENT THAT IS FAIR FOR LANGUAGE MINORITY STUDENTS
… world. Researchers emphasize the need for K-12 students to attain data literacy. However, few available instructions have incorporated validated assessments. Therefore, I developed and implemented the Data literacy Assessment for Middle graders (DLA-M) that can diagnose students’ current stages …
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Experiences of Success by Minority Students Attending a Predominantly Caucasian Nursing Program
… with the problem of student attrition in the minority population. Because there are so few minority students who choose nursing as a profession, educators strive to retain these students to graduation. Unfortunately, attrition rates of minority students continue to rise despite years of …
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Literacy Learning Experiences of Four Language Minority Students: The Principles of Importance
… of the factors that complicate the participating students' literacy learning. First, literacy progress is impacted by language programs provided at school and parental literacy support at home. Second, the parents' views or beliefs concerning first and second language acquisition have an impact on …
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An investigation of the correlation between learning and student achievement of minority students
… of this study was to evaluate why the grades of minority students in the high school were not up to par with majority students using action research resulting in a description of patterns within the school. At this stage of the research, inequities were generally defined as unfair advantages or …
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Closing the Opportunity Gap for Low-Income Urban Minority Students in Turnaround Schools
… racist policies that plague our low-income minority students, we have to remain diligent and innovative in our attempt to provide our low-income minority students, as early as pre-kindergarten, access to opportunities that will ultimately prepare them for post-secondary success. This study …
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Minority Students in STEM Careers in the U.S. – the Role of AP Calculus
… intervenes to improve success in educating S&E students from all demographic groups, especially those that have been underrepresented in S&E careers” (National Science Board [NSB], 2003, p. 13). More than a decade ago, the National Science Board (NSB) sounded an alarm regarding the projected …
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High School Dropout Rates Among Minority Students in a Northern California Suburban Area
… (E3) program is about the dropout rates among minority students within a certain county in Northern California. Why are minority students dropping out at higher rates than their white counterparts? The research hypothesis is that the dropout rate is higher among minority students because of …
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