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Download full textCowley, Kimberly S.; Meehan, Merrill L.; Whittaker, Denise; Carey, Marsha – 2002
West Virginia received two grants from the U.S. Department of Education to encourage disadvantaged youth to have high expectations, stay in school, and take academically rigorous courses to prepare for college. A total of 17 counties were served by these grants. As part of the program, surveys were completed by 3,716 students in 54 middle and…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, College Preparation, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Environment
Cowley, Kimberly S.; Meehan, Merrill L.; Wilson, Robert A.; Wilson, Nancy M. – 2003
A study examined rural students' academic aspirations and expectations, their perceptions of their parents' aspirations and expectations, and their parents' actual aspirations and expectations. Surveys were completed by 3,733 seventh grade-students in 54 schools in 17 West Virginia counties. Parent response rates were lower, with approximately two…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, College Preparation, Expectation, Grade 7
