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Direct linkKelly L. Stuart – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study explores the high academic achievement of Excelencia Early College High School (EECHS), located along the Texas-Mexico border. An open-enrollment public school, EECHS serves students who are characteristic of the lower Rio Grande Valley. These include students of low socioeconomic backgrounds, minorities, first-generation, and those…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Enrollment, Public Schools, Dual Enrollment
Peer reviewedBaca, Isabel, Ed.; Hinojosa, Yndalecio Isaac, Ed.; Murphy, Susan Wolff, Ed. – SUNY Press, 2019
"Bordered Writers" explores how writing program administrators and faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) are transforming the teaching of writing to be more inclusive and foster Latinx student success. Like its 2007 predecessor, "Teaching Writing with Latino/a Students", this collection contributes to ongoing…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, College Students, Racial Composition, Culturally Relevant Education
Solis, Eduardo – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This qualitative study explored the perceptions that instructors and students have of online learning in a Texas-Mexico border community college. Use of the interpretive approach and dialogical exchange through semi-structured interviews conducted with both instructors and students from a rural, border community college revealed multiple and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Colleges, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
Abdul-Alim, Jamaal – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2012
This article discusses the NASA-MUST (Motivating Undergraduates in Science and Technology) program which annually serves 115 students from diverse backgrounds. The program is in its sixth year. While the program is open to all students, a special emphasis is placed on those from groups that are underrepresented in STEM fields. Participating…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Scholarships, STEM Education, Student Motivation
Johnson, Linda K. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The overarching goal for American education under President Barack Obama has been to increase college enrollment and completion rates. The pressure to achieve this goal has been keenly felt in the postsecondary community, especially as federal and state funding have become increasingly tied to achieving higher college completion rates. Yet the…
Descriptors: High Schools, Urban Schools, Public Schools, High School Students
Download full textPeck, Robert F. – 1981
This study undertook to develop an improved conceptual system for explaining effective behavior; to build reliable measures of the components of that behavior; to develop and apply the measures internationally; and to validate the measures and concepts against objective criteria of achievement. An eight-nation team defined three sets of components…
Descriptors: Competence, Coping, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary Secondary Education
