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Showing 1 to 20 of 93 for “"low-income students"”.
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Supporting Low-Income Students: A Retrospective Study of Positive Practices
… educators use to promote the success of students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds within a Canadian context. The purpose of this qualitative study is to describe the support provided by retired educators to assist students from low-income backgrounds to achieve their potential …
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A Case Study on College Persistence of Low Income Students
… national average college persistence rate for low-income students was 16%. Compared to the national rate of 60%, this number presents a significant gap in college persistence rates between low-income and the overall persistence rate. However, the college persistence rate for low-income students …
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Leading a readiness program for low-income students within a preschool setting
… to narrowing the achievement gap between low socioeconomic students and high socioeconomic students has included endless approaches and interventions, including full day pre-school programs (NAEP, 1999; Snow, Burns, & Griffith, 1998).This action research project focused specifically on the …
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Educational Talent Search: Assessing Student Outcomes for First-Generation, Low-Income Students in Rural Georgia
… that works with potential first-generation, low-income sixth through twelfth graders. The goal of the ETS program is to increase the number of first-generation, lowincome students graduating from high school and enrolling in programs of postsecondary study. The purpose of this current study …
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Educating the Whole Child: Evidence of Health and Wellness Instruction in the Schools Serving Low-Income Students
… children experiences symptoms of mental illness. Low-income children are especially subject to these conditions. The long-term consequences for the country as a whole are significant. Schools are particularly well placed to address these problems by supporting the well-being of the whole child. …
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Pathways to School Success: An Examination of Perspectives of African American and Latino/a Low-income Students
… 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 through …
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Financial factors and institutional characteristics that explain undergraduate enrollment by low-income students at public master's-level institutions
Low-income students continue to struggle with the rising costs of higher education. Four-year college tuition typically exceeds financial aid awarded to undergraduates at public institutions. St. John (2005) contended that grant amounts remain inadequate for low-income students. Tinto (2008) …
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Intersected inequalities : how full funding for low-income students impacted class and gender disparities in undergraduate university programs.
… provides support on how measures to decrease income inequality can affect class and gender disparities in access and retention within higher education by studying effects of the Chilean 2015 National Education Reform. Beginning in 2016, the Chilean government granted full tuition subsidies for …
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Perceptions about math placement and pre-calculus/calculus math courses among college first-generation, low-income, students of color
… of this study was to explore first-generation, low-income, students' of color experiences with math placement and pre-calculus/calculus courses, focusing on their self-belief in being successful in math. As part of the Progress Through Calculus National Science Foundation research project, eight …
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First Not Last: A Not-So-Modest Proposal to Support First-Generation, Low-Income Students at the University of Pennsylvania
First-generation, low-income (FGLI, pronounced “figly”) students, including women, underrepresented minorities, and undocumented immigrants, represent a growing presence in higher education. These ambitious scholars arrive at community colleges and four-year public and private university campuses …
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How Do Students From Different Socioeconomic Backgrounds Respond to Mathematics Instruction? An Exploration From Diverse School Settings
Understanding why low-income students consistently perform below their middle-income peers on achievement tests, particularly in mathematics, is an issue that has received no small amount of attention in recent years. This study contributes to this understanding by examining deeply the experiences …
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A Simulation Model of the Effect of Admissions Testing Policy on How Students Sort to Colleges
Low-income students are underrepresented at selective colleges. Most evaluative criteria used by admissions officers are correlated with income, including test scores and performance in high school. Inspired in part by the current state of the use of testing in college admissions, this study …
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Community college dual credit: differential participation and differential impacts on college access and completion
… take hold in Illinois, using a large cohort of students who completed high school in spring 2003. The research sought to answer critical questions about the average outcomes of students participating in dual credit and the average outcomes of sub-samples of students of color and low-income …
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Unspoken Words Beyond the Numbers: Lived Experiences of Low Socioeconomic Status Post-Secondary Students
… access to post-secondary education (PSE) for students from low-socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds. More specifically, this study sought to understand these dynamics within an Ontario higher education context. Despite low-income students having some degree of access to PSE through the …
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A qualitative case study of one Hispanic-serving community college’s use of the multicultural organizational design model to describe equity-centered services.
… needs insecurity among community college (CC) students, how college leaders conceptualize and operationalize equity-centered approaches to support low-income students remains insufficiently understood. Rising costs of living, inflation, and persistent structural barriers increasingly threaten …
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The Neglected Minority: Interviews with Successful Community College Students from Poverty
… to embrace the economic diversity of all students and to prepare them, regardless of economic class, for a globally competitive workplace. Unfortunately, the higher education community is not as adept at serving low-income students, as it is middle- and upper- income students. Low-income …
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The Locus of Preparation and Privilege: College Choice and Social Reproduction
… appears most pronounced when considering family income and socioeconomic status. These differences are particularly notable when considering enrollment patterns of students who are academically qualified to succeed at a highly selective college or university, but who come from low income …
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Tellin' It Like It Is: Disempowerment and Marginalization of First-generation, Low-income College Students: a Participatory Research
… and marginalization in five first-generation, low-income college students who were participants in Student Support Services, a federally funded TRIO program at a large urban commuter state university. Using dialogic introspection and participatory research, the participants reflected on their …
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