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Lee, Moosung; Kim, Yeonjeong; Chesters, Jenny – Multicultural Education Review, 2022
As immigrants account for an increasing proportion of American youth, understanding how these young people experience change in their citizenship status is an important, yet rarely examined area for research. There is a plethora of evidence that opportunities to participate in American society are stratified according to class, race and ethnicity.…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Citizenship, Adolescents, Attitudes
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Chesters, Jenny – International Journal of Training Research, 2018
Between 1983 and 1993, grade 7/8 to grade 12 apparent retention rates more than doubled and secondary schools developed vocational education and training (VET) programmes as alternative pathways through secondary school. Previous research indicates that participation in VET programmes is associated with having low-educated parents and/or attending…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Background, Vocational High Schools, Nontraditional Education