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Boydstun, Kelli Dawn – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This qualitative case study investigated how the GEAR-Up college readiness program influenced the postsecondary decisions of Hispanic students who participated in the GEAR-Up program for the recommended six-year period in a rural school district in Texas. It was not known how long-term participation in the GEAR-Up program at a rural school…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Rural Youth, Hispanic American Students, Program Effectiveness
Beasley, Sarah Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine college pathways or college access and success of rural, first-generation students. Most research on college pathways for low- and moderate-income students focuses on those students as a whole or on urban low-socioeconomic status (SES) students. (Caution is in order when generalizing the experiences of…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Rural Youth, Rural Schools, Academic Aspiration