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Hiding and Seeking: The Educational and Socioemotional Needs of Asylum Seeker and Refugee Students
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Tatiana Kan; Christopher J. Cormier – Peabody Journal of Education, 2024
Focusing on asylum seeker and refugee students attending a school with the stated mission to cater to recent immigrants, asylees, and refugees in Texas, we explored the school experiences of asylum-seeking and refugee middle schoolers and how they see their education. Having obtained political asylum in the United States, they are hiding from…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Social Development, Emotional Development, Student Needs
International Research Exposure: Impact on Early-Career, Undergraduate Engineering Students
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Preuss, Michael D.; Merriweather, Samuel P.; Walton, Shannon D.; Butler-Purry, Karen L. – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2020
The Texas A&M University (TAMU) Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (TAMUS LSAMP) office provided funding to the Texas A&M University College of Engineering to support student participation in the Engineering Learning Community Introduction to Research (ELCIR) program. ELCIR is a two-week, study abroad, research program…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Research Training, Engineering Education, First Generation College Students
Transgender Students' School Perceptions and Experiences. Publication Number 17.32
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Fayles, Cason – Online Submission, 2018
This full report provides an analysis of 2017-2018 AISD student data, showing significant gaps in school perceptions and experiences of transgender and gender-nonconforming students relative to their peers, illustrating the need for additional policies and procedures to support AISD transgender and gender-nonconforming students. A separate…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Experience, Educational Environment, Student Attitudes
Long-Term English Language Learners' Perceptions of Their Language and Academic Learning Experiences
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Kim, Won Gyoung; García, Shernaz B. – Remedial and Special Education, 2014
Long-term, adolescent English language learners (ELLs) experience persistent academic underachievement in spite of several years of schooling; yet, the research on this topic is scant. To increase our understanding of these students' educational experiences, we explored perceptions of 13 long-term ELLs about their schooling in the context of their…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Learning Experience, Adolescent Attitudes, Institutional Characteristics
Adult Latino College Students: Experiencias y la Educacion
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Garza, Ana Lisa – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The study aimed to gain a better understanding of the learning experiences of adult Latino college students, as described directly in their own voices. The study was guided by two research questions: RQ1: "How do adult Latinos describe their undergraduate college learning experiences?" and RQ2: "How do culture, gender, and ethnic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Evidence, Student Attitudes
Mexican American Youth: Forgotten Youth at the Crossroads. A Random House Study in Sociology.
Heller, Celia S. – 1966
Studies of Mexican Americans, the third largest minority group, have resulted in an effort to understand them as well as to provide opportunity of exploring whether new trends have appeared among Mexican Americans. This fast-growing group has had a profound effect in settling the Southwest and has been the product of prejudice and discrimination…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Acculturation, Curriculum