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Download full textVance Vaughn – School Leadership Review, 2014
School districts and campuses throughout the nation are working around the clock to avoid an unacceptable accountability rating under the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001. In Texas the label has recently changed to "Improvement Required." An "Improvement Required" label forces districts and campuses into the Texas…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, School Districts, Sanctions
Goodman, Paul Wershub – 1973
The purpose of this study was to determine whether a difference exists between the grade achievement of Mexican American and Anglo college students. The study was conducted at the University of Texas at El Paso. A stratified random sample of 480 students equally divided between Anglos and Mexican Americans was drawn from unmarried full-time…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anglo Americans, College Students, Disadvantaged
de Avila, Edward A.; Havassy, Barbara – 1974
Approximately 1,225 Mexican American and Anglo American children in grades 1-6 (ages 6-14) from California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas were tested using school achievement and IQ standardized tests and four Piagetian-derived measures (Cartoon Conservation Scales, Water Level Task, Figural Intersection Test, and Serial Task). The field study's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anglo Americans, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Tests
Menchaca, Velma Dora – 1992
Little prior research exists on the achievement motivation of Mexican American students. In a rural south Texas junior high school, 120 eighth-grade students completed the 1969 Achieving Tendency Scales and demographic and socioeconomic questionnaires. Subjects were equally divided among four groups: Mexican American males and females and Anglo…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Anglo Americans, Fear
Harrison, Helene W. – 1976
Comprised of 27 classrooms from grade levels 1-6, the program was primarily designed to provide bilingual education for pupils with limited English speaking ability. However, due to parental requests, almost 16% monolingual English-speakers were accepted into the program. Of the 717 pupils participating in the program 84.6% were Mexican American.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Anglo Americans, Bilingual Education
Felice, Lawrence G. – 1973
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relative importance of school socioeconomic and racial-ethnic context for Mexican American student achievement and dropout behavior. Data reported in this paper were obtained from the first part of a larger 3-year panel study evaluating the effects of court-ordered busing on majority and minority…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Anglo Americans, Black Youth
