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Direct linkLaura Nichols; Maria Valle – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
Undermatching, or students attending less selective colleges than they are academically qualified to attend, is seen as a contributing factor to the lagging college completion rate of low-income and first-generation college students. Addressing the mismatch has been mainly limited to the individual level. Through analysis of interview and…
Descriptors: Time to Degree, Hispanic American Students, School Choice, Barriers
Quirk, Matthew; Swami, Sruthi; Loera, Gustavo; Garcia, Sergio – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2020
Reading motivation may help explain some discrepancies in higher education attainment among Latinx adolescents. Using a person-centered approach to understand underlying reading motivation profiles among N = 254 Latinx adolescents, results identified four ordered classes of reading motivation including, (a) a "High" class characterized…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Adolescents, Reading Motivation, Academic Aspiration
Georges, Annie; Maldonado, Saúl I.; Uppal, Harpreet K. – NABE Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
The academic achievement, bilingual proficiency, and sociocultural competence of exiting middle school students was analyzed to provide dual-language program stakeholders with evaluative information for local control funding and accountability planning. Informed by equity as a guiding principle of additive bilingualism, researchers used…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Bilingualism, Correlation, 21st Century Skills
Chavira, Gabriela; Cooper, Catherine R.; Vasquez-Salgado, Yolanda – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2016
Drawing on sociocultural and related theories, 4 questions examined career and educational aspirations and expectations among 24 immigrant Latina/o early adolescents and their parents as predictors of students' grades. First, adolescents' career aspirations and expectations were correlated, and both parents and adolescents held educational…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Academic Aspiration, Parent Aspiration, Occupational Aspiration
Chen, Yung-Chi; Fish, Marian C. – Journal of Family Issues, 2013
This study examined how maternal chronic illnesses may affect children's academic achievement through parental involvement. A total of 189 mothers diagnosed with chronic illnesses, such as multiple sclerosis, diabetes, cancer, HIV/AIDS, chronic pain, asthma, myelodysplasic syndrome, and fibromyalgia, and with a child in middle school or high…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Mothers, Chronic Illness, Academic Achievement
Download full textChristina Clark Tuttle; Brian Gill; Philip Gleason; Virginia Knechtel; Ira Nichols-Barrer; Alexandra Resch – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2013
The Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) is a rapidly expanding network of public charter schools whose mission is to improve the education of low-income children. As of the 2012-2013 school year, 125 KIPP schools are in operation in 20 different states and the District of Columbia (DC). Ultimately, KIPP's goal is to prepare students to enroll and…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Charter Schools, Middle School Students, Economically Disadvantaged
