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Sanchez-Palacios, Jeannette – ProQuest LLC, 2023
For decades Latinas have been mobilizing their communities to call out and address the injustices they have encountered as women and as students of color (Garcia & Marquez, 2011). Latinas are becoming the fastest-growing minority group in California, and projections indicate this trend is expected to continue (American Association of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Females
Bonnie Gabriela Gallegos – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative study on the experiences of Latina leaders in PK-12 educational settings reveals the significant impact of their community cultural wealth on leadership development and effectiveness. By integrating personal and professional narratives, in the form of "testimonios," with theoretical frameworks like LatCrit and Culturally…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Personal Narratives, Elementary Secondary Education, Cultural Capital
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L. Ochoa, Gilda – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2022
Since college, La Puente, CA has been the focus of my research and activism from bilingual education, sanctuary to by-trustee area school board elections. As a graduate student in the 1990s, I returned to live and research in this city of my childhood and where my immigrant grandparents eventually moved to in the 1950s from Nicaragua and Sicily.…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Females, Feminism, Neighborhoods
Rivera-Bocanegra, Esther Renee – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Historical, cultural, and educational policies based on deficit thought are ubiquitous in the identity formation of Latinas. These politics and practices are governed and informed by the dominant ideology and culture, leaving Latinas and their identity formation fragmented and colonized. This dynamic-critical study involved exploring Latinas'…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Sense of Community, Cultural Capital, Trauma
Nayeli Berenice Aranda Hernandez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In the next 20 years, the Hispanic student population is projected to become the dominant demographic in public schools in the United States. However, there is a significant shortage of Hispanic women in leadership roles in public education, notably in superintendent positions, underscoring the importance of examining the factors behind the…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Elementary Secondary Education, Women Administrators, Females
Carla Lopez-Valdes – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Latina community college students face significant barriers in achieving their educational goals, particularly transferring to 4-year institutions. Despite comprising a large and growing demographic within community colleges, their unique needs and experiences often remain unaddressed. This qualitative study explored the lived experiences of…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Academic Persistence, Difficulty Level, Hispanic American Students
Tatian, Peter A.; McManus, Sophie; Kumari, Shubhangi; Samuels, Gabe – Urban Institute, 2023
This brief covers the Advancing Early Education Collaborative (AEEC)'s efforts to address the lack of equitable opportunities for early childhood educators and the quality of early child care and childhood education in DC. The AEEC has the goals of enhancing early education career pathways for Black and Latina women in Wards 7 and 8 and improving…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Partnerships in Education, Educational Improvement, Equal Education
Maile Canlas – ProQuest LLC, 2023
First-generation Latinas (FGLs) in higher education have experienced challenges attending predominantly White institutions. Lack of sense of belonging is a strong predictor for isolation, anxiety, and/or depression. In addition to cultural dissonance and racially driven climates, attending predominantly White institutions increase the odds against…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Hispanic American Students, Females, Academic Achievement
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Martinez, Melissa A.; Rivera, Marialena; Marquez, Jocabed – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2020
Purpose: With the rise of the Latinx student population in the United States and the urgency to meet the needs of this diverse community, there has been an increased concern and interest in preparing more Latinx educators and school leaders. This study contributes to this knowledge base by centering the voices and experiences of four Latina school…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Women Administrators, Females, Instructional Leadership
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Liou, Daniel D.; Martinez, Jo Ann L.; Rotheram-Fuller, Erin – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2023
Many Latinas encounter negative expectations regarding their chances of attending college in the United States. Dominant narratives legitimize these structural and relational negations by depicting Latinas as a group that voluntarily lowers their expectations of themselves as they move through the education pipeline. To increase the representation…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Females, Minority Serving Institutions, Educational Attainment
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Alyssa G. Cavazos; Javier Cavazos Vela; Alonso Troncoso – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
We used a phenomenological research design to explore 19 Latina and Queer identifying undergraduate students' lived experiences in STEM undergraduate courses at a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI). Eighteen participants self-identified as female and one identified as genderqueer with an average undergraduate grade point average of 3.07. The…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Hispanic American Students, STEM Education, Females
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Mark Nagasawa, Editor; Cristina Medellin-Paz, Editor; Helen Frazier, Contributor; Virginia Dearani, Contributor; Charis-Ann Sole, Contributor; M. Nalani Mattox-Primacio, Contributor; Shin Ae Han, Contributor; Soyoung Park, Contributor; Sunmin Lee, Contributor; Nnenna Odim, Contributor; Jennifer Keys Adair, Contributor; Angie Zapata, Contributor; Mary Adu-Gyamfi, Contributor; Adrianna González Ybarra, Contributor; Seung Eun McDevitt, Contributor; Louella Sween, Contributor; Vanessa Rodriguez, Contributor – Bank Street College of Education, 2024
Issue 51 of the Bank Street Occasional Papers Series "Reconceptualizing Quality Early Care and Education with Equity at the Center" is a response to Gunilla Dahlberg, Peter Moss, and Alan Pence's 25-year interrogation of the concept of quality in early childhood education (ECE) (Dahlberg et al., 1999, 2013, 2023). Their groundbreaking…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Equal Education, Teaching Methods
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Garriott, Patton O.; Carrero Pinedo, Ayli; Hunt, Heather K.; Navarro, Rachel L.; Flores, Lisa Y.; Desjarlais, Cerynn D.; Diaz, David; Brionez, Julio; Lee, Bo Hyun; Ayala, Evelyn; Martinez, Leticia D.; Hu, Xiaotian; Smith, Megan K.; Suh, Han Na; McGillen, Gloria G. – Journal of Engineering Education, 2023
Background: Although participation rates vary by field, Latiné and women engineers continue to be underrepresented across most segments of the engineering workforce. Research has examined engagement and persistence of Latiné and White women in engineering; however, few studies have investigated how race, ethnicity, gender, and institutional…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Latin Americans, Hispanic American Students, White Students
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Turner, Caroline Sotello Viernes – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2021
This essay begins with a presentation of the author's personal and professional background relative to the topics of diversity, identity, socialization, and the inequality of educational outcomes. Turner then presents US census and Chronicle of Higher Education data to provide a national context for the discussion to follow, including but not…
Descriptors: Diversity, Identification (Psychology), Socialization, Equal Education
Fancsali, Cheri – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2022
New York City is one of several large school districts around the country that are actively working to promote "computer science for all" students. Launched in 2015, NYC's CS4All initiative aims to ensure that all public school students learn computer science--especially female, Black, and Latinx students, who are starkly…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Public Schools
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