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Direct linkMuteb Alanazi – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of the demographic characteristics of middle school students on their mathematics performance on the STAAR examination. More specifically, this study examined the effect of the variables gender, ethnicity, and at-risk status, separate and collectively, on the four mathematics components…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Standardized Tests, Demography, Middle School Mathematics
Download full textSwain, Walker; Wang, Shuyang; Kouaho, Joseph-Emery – Urban Institute, 2023
Absent a nationwide plan for universal public prekindergarten, states and districts have taken various approaches to increasing access to school-based educational opportunities for their youngest learners. Though some of these programs have focused on making public prekindergarten available to all families, others have targeted families most in…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Public Education, Equal Education, State Programs
Peer reviewedRodríguez, Cristóbal – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2016
This study focuses on Texas Borderland students admitted through the Texas Top 10% admissions policy, which assumes that Top 10% students are college ready for any public university and provides Top 10% high school graduates automatic admission to any 4-year public university in Texas. Using descriptive and inferential statistics, results…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, College Admission, Admission Criteria, Success
Preuss, Michael D.; Sosa, Eric M.; Rodin, Jason C.; Dorsett, Christine R.; Ramos, Jorje D.; Burleson, Chenoa R. – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2021
Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) educate nearly two-thirds of the Hispanic/Latinx students who attend college. Yet little is known about the student populations they serve. Findings from two NSF-funded surveys completed with students at 14 HSIs in Texas and New Mexico in 2018 and four HSIs in TX in 2019 are presented. The combined sample was…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions, College Students, Student Characteristics
Goodman, Christie L., Ed. – Intercultural Development Research Association, 2017
Each edition of the IDRA Newsletter strives to provide many different perspectives on the issues in education topics discussed and to define its significance in the state and national dialogue. This issue focuses on Push Outs -- Children of Color and includes: (1) Partnerships, Not Push Outs--Collaboration is Critical to Dealing with Disparities…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Dropout Rate, Dropout Prevention, School Policy
Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2013
National and regional trends mask important variation among states in the supply of high school graduates. This profile provides brief indicators for Texas related to: current levels of educational attainment, projections of high school graduates into the future, and two common barriers to student access and success--insufficient academic…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Attainment, Ethnicity, High School Graduates
TG (Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation), 2009
In 2006, TG (Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation) issued a report entitled "Ready, Willing and Unable: How Financial Barriers Obstruct Bachelor Degree Attainment in Texas." Drawing on a report by the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, which projected the number of bachelor degrees lost nationally due to financial…
Descriptors: Barriers, Educational Attainment, Bachelors Degrees, Student Costs
Rodriguez, Cristobal – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study analyzed trends in access and success of students admitted through the Top 10% admissions policy. The study employs an comparative analysis between public universities from the Borderland region and the two top-tier public universities in Texas. This Texas admissions policy provides students in the top 10% of their graduating high…
Descriptors: Economic Development, State Universities, Family Income, Academic Persistence
Houston Community College System, Office of Institutional Research, 2011
The Houston Community College (HCC) 2010-2011 Fact Book provides statistical information about the college district. It is important for the reader to be aware that data presented in this publication may differ slightly from statistics found in other district reports. Such variances may result from differences methodology including the source of…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, School Districts, Community Colleges, Tables (Data)
Roberts, Robert E.; Roberts, Catherine Ramsay; Xing, Yun – Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2006
Objective: The authors present prevalence data for adolescents in a large metropolitan area and examine the association of DSM-IV diagnoses with functional impairment and selected demographic correlates among European Americans (EA), African Americans (AA), and Mexican (MA) Americans. Method: The authors sampled 4,175 youths ages 11 to 17 years…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Incidence, Health Facilities, Social Status
