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Vanessa Gonzalez Hernandez – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2023
This Research Brief summarizes the performance of Miami-Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) students participating in the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. The IB program was offered at six M-DCPS high schools in 2022-2023. Over 3,200 assessments were completed by M-DCPS students in 30 subject areas in 2022-2023. The number of IB…
Descriptors: Scores, Advanced Placement Programs, Public Schools, Eligibility
Hernandez, Vanessa Gonzalez – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2022
This Research Brief summarizes the performance of Miami-Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) students participating in the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. The IB program was offered at six M-DCPS high schools in 2021-2022. Over 3,000 assessments were completed by M-DCPS students in 30 subject areas in 2021-2022. The number of IB…
Descriptors: Scores, Advanced Placement Programs, Public Schools, Eligibility
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Yakushkina, Maria – Hispania, 2022
In a highly global world, migrant communities navigate multiple cultural and linguistic contexts. To understand these cross-cultural ties and bridge the fields of linguistics and transnationalism, the present study provides detailed linguistic analysis of the interrelation between heritage language use and symbolic transnationalism among the…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Cubans, Hispanic Americans, Foreign Countries
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Gonzales-Backen, Melinda A.; Meca, Alan; Lorenzo-Blanco, Elma I.; Des Rosiers, Sabrina E.; Córdova, David; Soto, Daniel W.; Cano, Miguel Ángel; Oshri, Assaf; Zamboanga, Byron L.; Baezconde-Garbanati, Lourdes; Schwartz, Seth J.; Szapocznik, José; Unger, Jennifer B. – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Ethnic identity formation is a central developmental task that can become challenging when adolescents face a salient stressor, such as ethnic discrimination. Although ethnic identity and experiences with ethnic discrimination are thought to be associated, the temporal order of these constructs is unclear. In the current study, we examined (a) the…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Identification (Psychology), Hispanic Americans, Adolescents
Mohl, Raymond A. – Migration World, 1986
The arrival of Cubans and other exile and refugee groups since 1960 has dramatically altered the social and political demography of Miami. Those groups' active participation in the political system is discussed, as is the use of that system to achieve group goals and stimulate the sense of ethnic identity and political power. (PS)
Descriptors: Activism, Blacks, Ethnic Distribution, Ethnicity
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Portes, Pedro R.; Zady, Madelon F. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2002
Self-esteem variations were studied among 2,600 Spanish-speaking adolescents who were immigrants or children of immigrants and attended grade 8 or 9 in 42 Florida and San Diego (California) schools. Five Spanish-speaking subgroups had different acculturation patterns. Depression, parent-child conflict, discrimination, and school achievement and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, Adolescents, Cultural Context