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Marrero, Floralba Arbelo – Journal of Education and Learning, 2016
Academic achievement among Latino high school students is a pressing issue as data consistently demonstrates that Latino students underperform and are at higher risk of dropping out of high school than their non-Latino peers. This paper reviews nonacademic barriers to the success of Latino students focusing on sociocultural issues that influence…
Descriptors: Barriers, Success, Hispanic American Students, Academic Achievement
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Heinrich, Jill – High School Journal, 2013
This study stems from a yearlong qualitative inquiry examining the influence that gender ideologies exercised in the lives of four young men in the high school setting. Utilizing a feminist, post-structuralist perspective (Davies, 1997, 1989; Connell, 1996, 1997, 1989; Martino, 1995), it analyzes how masculinity constructs itself through…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Ideology, Qualitative Research, Masculinity
Amos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2008
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) NCLB Anniversary Prompts Renewed Calls for Reauthorization: Growth Models, High School Reform Emerge as Points of…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Educational Change, Public Education, High Schools
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Louis, Karen Seashore – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2006
Each of the articles included in this issue launched the author backward into nostalgia and reconsideration of her own work as they motivated her to ask new questions in current and future studies. The author's goal, therefore, is not to provide a linear road map through the articles but to point to themes and ideas that run through the project…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Foreign Countries, School Districts