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Peer reviewedBlack, Mary S. – Interchange, 1997
Argues that the primary reason for Mexican American students' low academic achievement was the agrarian belief system, shared by both Mexicans and Whites, that valued children's labor in the fields more than in the school house. (SM)
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Child Labor, Cultural Influences, Educational History
