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Crawford, Emily R.; Valle, Fernando – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
School counselors are critical intermediaries in K-12 schools who can help students from undocumented immigrant families persist in school. Yet, a dearth of research exists about their advocacy work, or the range of efforts they make to support unauthorized youth. This paper asks, (1) what challenges do counselors face and strive to overcome to…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Academic Persistence, School Districts, School Counselors
Goldrick-Rab, Sara; Cady, Clare – Online Submission, 2018
This report is an in-depth case study of the No Excuses Poverty Initiative at Amarillo College (AC), a midsize community college in the Texas Panhandle. Nearly a decade ago, AC's leadership initiated a reflective and intentional series of steps to help alleviate the conditions of poverty affecting their students and promote the chances those…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Hispanic American Students, Low Income Students, First Generation College Students