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José Del Real Viramontes – Community College Review, 2025
Objective: The purpose of this study is to highlight the type of community cultural wealth developed and used by Latina/o community college transfer students who encountered limited pre-transfer assistance and unreceptive cultures at their transfer institutions. Method: This study took place at Southwest State University (SSU), a Predominantly…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Hispanic American Students, Transfer Students, State Universities
UnidosUS, 2020
In its 2019 report, "Beyond the Border: Family Separation in the Trump Era" (see ED603926), UnidosUS demonstrates how the current trajectory of the nation's immigration policies is threatening the future of an entire generation of American children. Today, 80% of Latinos are U.S. citizens and half of those remaining are legal permanent…
Descriptors: Immigration, Hispanic Americans, Children, Public Policy
Alexandra E. Hughes – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this study was to examine college students' experiences of racial microaggressions at a Hispanic serving institution. The participants were undergraduate and graduate students from a large higher education research institution in South Texas. The study had a qualitative approach with a two-step process of Phase 1 and Phase 2. Phase…
Descriptors: College Students, Minority Serving Institutions, Racism, School Holding Power
Kristen Hengtgen; Hector Biaggi – Education Trust, 2024
Research shows that when students have access to advanced coursework opportunities, they work harder and are more engaged in school, have fewer absences and suspensions and higher graduation rates. Unfortunately, many Black and Latino students and students from low-income backgrounds lack equitable access to advanced coursework opportunities, such…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Access to Education, African American Students, Hispanic American Students
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Flores, Heraclio, Jr.; Aguilar, Israel – Journal of School Leadership, 2023
Framed by queer theory, this qualitative study sought to better understand the unique experiences of homophobia that occur amongst Latinx gender and sexually diverse youth (GSDY) in south Texas. Latinx GSDY in this borderland region, are less likely to be in schools that adopt affirming policies and are therefore more likely to experience…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Sexual Identity, Alumni, Homosexuality
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Leslie, Angela M. – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2021
There is a lack of research on the prevalence of Latinas in K-12 history textbooks. This research offers a content analysis of the unique gendered contributions of Latinas in history to fulfill this gap in educational research. Twelve middle and high school textbooks were examined using content analysis to assess the extent of Latina inclusion in…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Females, Textbooks, Textbook Content
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Jones, Jacquelyn; Welker, Melissa; Charlton, Jonikka; Arney, Janna – New Directions for Higher Education, 2021
Although we know advising can be conceptualized as a critical component of an integrated and comprehensive student success strategy on a campus, it is often difficult to implement. This chapter will provide a case study of the development and execution of a leadership initiative at an American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Equal Education, Success, Strategic Planning
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Reyes, Ganiva – Critical Studies in Education, 2021
This article explores how three teachers developed a similar mindset and practice of care for Latina mothering students within a caring alternative school located along the U.S./Mexico border. Three narratives are featured to reveal how teachers draw upon a network of support to transform themselves into family-like figures for their students. The…
Descriptors: Caring, Early Parenthood, Adolescents, Child Rearing
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Fallas Escobar, Christian; Treviño, Alejandra – Bilingual Research Journal, 2021
In this interview-based study, we examine two Latina bilingual teacher candidates' accounts of their experiences as Spanish-dominant, Mexican-national bilingual speakers in social and institutional spaces. We analyze their accounts of grappling with circulating language ideologies from a raciolinguistic perspective, using tenets of critical…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Bilingual Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes
Daley, Nola; Murano, Dana; Casillas, Alex – ACT, Inc., 2021
This brief is part of a five-part series that reports findings from research conducted by ACT in collaboration with Region One Education Service Center. This brief focuses on family engagement with social and emotional learning (SEL) and includes results from surveys administered to two samples of parents/family members, one sample within Region…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Program Implementation, Hispanic American Students, Grade 8
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Scott, Lawrence; Kearney, W. Sean; Druery, Donna; Pingue, Ashland – Education and Urban Society, 2022
The purpose of this study was to identify the strengths and challenges that emerged from the first 3 years of a high school student leadership development program located in an urban setting. This study was developed as an instrumental case study of one student leadership development program serving urban public high schools in South Central…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Community Relationship, Cooperation, Student Leadership
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Hadi, Narges; Spott, Jessica L.; Higgins, Raegan – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2022
This qualitative study explored the challenges that Hispanic and African American students experience during their education in STEM fields at community colleges. Students from four community colleges across Texas participated in this study. Drawing from focus group interviews, three themes were identified as self-perceived challenges to degree…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Student Experience, STEM Education, Community College Students
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James-Gallaway, ArCasia D. – Teachers College Record, 2022
Background/Context: School segregation scholarship underlines that litigation challenging the segregation of Mexican American students in Texas schools stressed their legal racial identity as white. "The other white race strategy," as scholars call it, granted Mexican Americans the right to access resources designated for the country's…
Descriptors: African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Mexican Americans, School Segregation
Barbara Buckley Greses – ProQuest LLC, 2022
According to the "2016-2017 Rural Schools Spotlight Report," Texas is home to more than 1,240 school districts with almost 665 serving less than 1,000 students. One focus for the Texas Education Agency (TEA) has been serving the needs of small and rural sites as they comprise more than 50% of the state's districts. In South Texas, a…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Hispanic Americans, Women Administrators, Rural Areas
Cynthia B. Olivarez – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study looks at a group of Hispanic English Learners from a region in deep South Texas that is situated along the U.S.-Mexico border, and how their sense of belonging, acculturation, and their perception of the teacher-student relationship impacts academic achievement on the STAAR End-of-Course state assessments for English I and English II.…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Academic Achievement, Sense of Community, Acculturation
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